The+Exorcist's+Tale

__The Exorcist’s Tale __
Listen dumb children, I have a story A tale of madness, an allegory[1] Sure to perplex as much as entertain But doubtful to cause any mental pain It begins with a young lady named Bree Walking with a basket through the country The sky was crimson, each blade of grass burned The distant town shook, the toxic air churned The homes were crooked, the streets corpse-covered[2] Somewhere above, a pendulum hovered Amidst this chaos, Bree looked rather bored As if this was a place she had explored ‘For the first time in my life, it would seem’ <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">She said, ‘I’m aware that I’m in a dream <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">And since none of this is actually real <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">I shall not worry about this ordeal’ <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">The very first thing that she wished to do  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">Was tell the dream people what she now knew <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">She wanted to see how they would react <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">Would they be able to converse and act? <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">The street was empty, so she found a club <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">And said to the travelers in the pub <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">‘Good day, fine folk, I have something to tell <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">This is just a dream, nothing else, well? <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">What do you think, now that you know the truth? <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">For all of you here, I hold little ruth <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">Since you only exist in my own mind <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">But don’t think of me as rude or unkind’ <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">Most of them ignored her, some were confused <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">Others were furious, one was amused<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">[3] <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">It was clear no one heeded what she said <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">They thought there was a problem with her head <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">Oh the irony, when you see the light <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">But everyone else does not hear you right <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">She was troubled, though she did not know why <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">If they did not believe her, that was fine <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">She could think up much better things to do  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">Than to stand here and not be listened to   <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">She fled into the road of this false world <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">And that is when further strangeness unfurled <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">The street turned narrow, the sky deep violet<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">[4] <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">Bree witnessed a scene I would deem violent <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">A thief was waving a spoon at a man <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">Who was frightened despite the foolish plan <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">He called out to the young lady for help <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">But she did not want to hazard herself <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">‘I can still feel pain when I’m in a dream <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">On your plight I am not overly keen <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">What if he harmed me for helping you out? <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">It would hurt a lot, that I do not doubt <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">He did not understand her reason why <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">Before he could ask, the thief stole his eye <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">The crook ran, laughing maniacally <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">While the girl thought, what a strange way to be<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">[5] <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">A butterfly passed, with glass wings and bone <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">And Bree wondered if she could somehow clone <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">The way it moved like a ribbon through air <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">Without the burden of limits unfair <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">She tried to fly, but found she could not <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">No matter how much she struggled or fought <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">She stayed tied down, like a fly in a bind<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">[6][7] <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">Unable to break the chains in her mind <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">She gave up her quest and then turned around <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">And saw a small fire, on the dry ground <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">She could, if she only gave an effort <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">Smother and strangle it into the dirt <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">But she did not care, it was no large threat <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">It was not even bothering her yet <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">And so she let the inferno grow tall <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">Engulf the meadow, the dark flames<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">[8] did maul<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">[9] <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">The green field, and away went the flowers<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">[10] <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">Becoming ash in a span of hours <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">The plain that could have had wider uses <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">Had been a target for Bree’s abuses <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">As well as a few houses in the town <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">If the fire spread, they too would burn down <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">She sauntered off with a song, quite cheerful <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">Of the damage, she need not be tearful <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">She journeyed to a land cold and bitter <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">Where two armies faced off, black and silver <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">Banners and weapons were frosted in ice <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">The soldiers still trapped in their deadly vice<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">[11] <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">Neither side wished to be the aggressor <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">But they did not want to stand forever <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">One had to move first, they could not guess who <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">Little did they know, Bree was waiting too <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">She got her basket and sat on the hill <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">Far from the eyes of those ready to kill <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">The glory of war without tragedy <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">What a great event that would be to see <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">What would it look like, the carnage and death? <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">And what, after the fact, would there be left? <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">Sadly, she was not one to act patient <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">She would do something to drop them a hint <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">She threw a large rock, so quick was the blur <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">It hit, in the head, the head officer <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">As can be expected, the armies clashed <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">Many hearts bled out, many skulls were bashed <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">Arrows went flying, swords were stabbing about <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">Hundreds perished in that one fatal bout <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">Yet for Bree this was a wonderful show <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">But she was tired, and wouldn't you know <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">While war raged, she fell asleep suddenly <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">All of it had been just reality!

1**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Appositive ** 2 **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Alliteration ** 3 **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Asyndeton ** 4 **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Ellipsis ** 5**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">Understatement ** 6**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Assonance ** 7 **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Simile ** 8<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;"> **Oxymoron** 9<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;"> **Implied metaphor** “Maul” compares the flames to wild animals. 10 **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Inverted Syntax ** 11 **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Metaphor **