Analysis of The Moonlight Epic
Moonlight was the name of old,
His story has to be told.
The fable from child to knight.
The book tells of his legendary plight.
But as his untimely demise,
Where a crow would eat his eyes.
He was dead as a sandy grave.
It was told he’s a king, his father gave.
His mother treasured him babe to welt.
She healed his wounds where flogging dealt.
Born a cannibal to eat the dead.
Moonlight’s tomb would be where he fed.
From dust devils to sandstorms,
He would find and eat the worms.
Now a babe and soon to be born,
His mother cried and was torn.
As a young and dirty slave,
It never rained and he was brave.
The mother of dunes taught her son,
To eat the cacti under a dry sun.
A maiden of steel and will pretend,
To be a concubine to the end.
Now a disguise to be broken,
The king keeps the child as a token.
Once the mother did conceive,
The child would be enthroned, he did believe.
When Moonlight was just a lad,
He did all sorts of things bad.
He was a weak and feeble boy,
As his father gave him a toy.
Too small to ride on the wooden horse gift,
And he couldn’t save a real beast from a rift.
After his mother almost passed from birth,
She died in the desert after showing worth.
She raised the child on cacti and worms,
She didn’t know about the germs.
When the mother died from a snake,
She knew now Moonlight wouldn’t break.
She raised him to belong,
The mother taught him all she knew, no wrong.
The boy made it with his own,
Until one-day he would be grown.
Moonlight’s mother left him a book,
Even how to play chess with a rook.
The book’s map showed where it was cold,
Where the king’s castle would be told.
The book reads the king is his father,
And known for arrows with a feather.
Moonlight practiced day-to-night,
Until he made a bow that was tight.
His father raised him to be king,
And all the joy a knight would bring.
The king kept his wife a secret, exiled as a slave,
Moonlight was banished, but brave.
The knight who taught him much he knew,
Moonlight learned he could fight a crew.
He was taught to use a blade,
Even how a blacksmith sword was made.
The king was once a blacksmith,
He was born in the kingdom of Fort With.
Moonlight was now a prince,
He looked for a princess, so he had to wash and rinse.
The water from the well was now dirty,
He was now the age of thirty.
Moonlight now met a princess,
She was from the kingdom of Dirkcess.
As they talked they fell in love,
Her teeth were white as a dove.
A dragon now came forth,
To claim gold for what it was worth.
The knight that taught Moonlight was eaten,
And the king died fatally beaten.
Moonlight was now the new king,
The citizens celebrated with a bell they did ring.
Fire from the dragon’s nose flared,
As the soldier’s backs were bared.
Now Princess Amellia fought him,
Her hat was burned to the brim.
As the dragon flew forth, no time for a wedding,
However; he was caught in a spider’s webbing.
Moonlight climbed a tree where it was cold,
And Amellia stabbed a sword where the dragon did scold.
Now the dragon fell to the ground,
Moonlight shot his arrow with no sound.
The dragon and spider fought,
And the hairy-eyed fiend was wrought.
Now Moonlight was stabbed through his hide,
By the sharp dragon tail, he died.
Now they would of been wed,
And by his arrow and Amellia’s sword the dragon fatally bled.
Scheme | AA BB CC DD EE FF XG HH DD II JJ II KK LL MM NN OO GG PP QQ RR SS AA TT BB UU DD VV WW XX XX YY XC ZZ XO II UU 1 1 2 2 UU AA 3 3 4 4 5 5 FF |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (29%) |
Metre | 110111 1101111 0101111 011111001 11101001 1011111 11110101 1111011101 110101111 11111101 101001101 1111111 111011 1110101 10101111 1101011 1010101 11010111 01011101 1101010011 010110101 11010101 10011110 011011010 1010101 011111101 111101 1111111 11010101 11101101 1111101011 0111011101 101101111 11001010101 110111001 1110101 10101101 111111 111101 0101111111 0111111 01111111 1101101 101111101 01111111 10110111 011011110 011101010 110111 011101111 11011111 01010111 011110101101 111011 01111111 1111101 1111101 10101111 011101 1110010111 11101 1110101111101 0101011110 11101110 111010 11101011 1111101 0101101 010111 11111111 01111110 001110010 111011 0100100101111 10101011 1010101 110111 0111101 101011111010 10111001010 11011111 01101101011 10101101 11110111 0100101 00101111 1111111 10110111 111111 011100110101001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 3,369 |
Words | 769 |
Sentences | 49 |
Stanzas | 45 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 90 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 57 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
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