Analysis of Revenant



Scrape, scrape goes the night
Waking me from a dream
To greet a nightmare

A ragged, hungry breath
Shambling in the shadows
Enfolding me
Keeping me still
With undiscovered terror
At what lies lamenting
In this living abyss

Pure fear uncoils
In the viscera
Of my very being
Cold terror snakes
Through my veins
The terrible gloom
Palpable
A black, heavy ink
Choking my senses
Drowning my sanity
Forcing me to sink or swim
Into this wrathful darkness

So I move, bound
By naked instinct
To bear witness
To the horror
Lying in wait
For the foolish

Pushing through
The gasping blackness
I find the true form
Of my forgotten fear
Clutching at his chest
Collapsed
Wordless with pain

His eyes speak to me
Of a life winding down
As the sum
Of his electricity
His children call a memory
Become just theocentric fireflies
Shivering in his pupils

Glowing then gone.


Scheme XXA XBCXDEX BAEXXXXXXCXF XXFDXX XFXXXXX CXXCCXX X
Poetic Form
Metre 11101 101101 1101 010101 1001 11 1011 101010 111010 011001 111 001 111010 1101 111 01001 100 01101 10110 101100 1011111 011110 1111 11010 1110 1010 1001 1010 101 01010 11011 110101 10111 01 1011 11111 101101 101 110100 11010100 011110 1000110 1011
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 857
Words 157
Sentences 1
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 3, 7, 12, 6, 7, 7, 1
Lines Amount 43
Letters per line (avg) 16
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 99
Words per stanza (avg) 22

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A poem about the death of a father.

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Written on October 25, 2023

Submitted by marshallfaine on October 25, 2023

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