Ode To Poe..... What do you think of this poem?

Question

Ode To Poe

Dark, decrepit, dreary damned night
Fills my bowels with stones of fright
My eyes shift from the left to the right
While shadows dance in the pale moonlight

No human should walk the earth at this hour
Per chance to meet some unearthly power
I watch, I listen, I dodge, I cower
While heart burns, stomach churns, and mouth tastes sour

The cold wind howls with evil glee
Anticipating my destiny
I know some spectre waits for me
To rend, to end mortality

I watch it standing up ahead
With fingers of bone and eyes of red
Beckoning me to join the dead
I change my path, with feet of lead

I begin to tremble and I can swear
If only in mind, there's something here
And I die in waiting, there's death in fear
Damned night be gone, glorious dawn appear

Answer 1

That's very macabre, very dark, very creepy. Poe would be honored. :-D

Answer 2

OK, the rhyme is simplistic.
The mood is...not quite, almost there.
The imagery is...really lacking.
You lost the creative steam in the beginning.

It's really difficult to emulate another poet.

What I DO see is that you can write. My suggestion would be to forget Poe for now and write for you. I think you can.

Answer 3

I would have to say that you hit the coffin nail on the head...lol
(lame I know,I just can't help myself sometimes..lol)

Very well written,Poe would indeed be honored,were he able to read it!

Answer 4

poe would indeed be honored!! i still think he wrote streets of baltimore from beyond the grave or he foretold his demise

Answer 5

Good ode. Nice work. Write more.