Hello ShiShad _welcome to Trick-or-Treat. I am Just an Ordinary Boo! and I am going to be reviewing your piece as a gesture of friendliness, please accept it in the same spirit with which it is offered.
So we're all off T-o-Tting up WDC's back alleys, in search of likely pieces to amuse us. If we are deliciously scared fine, otherwise we go off and search some more. There is no virtual soaping of windows done - and we're really not picky! Coming ahead with us?
The Title: Ooh, good one! The Hallows could be place (JKR's last offering)or the seasonal time, and Phantom sets the mood instantly. One Clop-clop of applause right there, friend!
Rhyming: Nooooooooo! Not another set of quatrains! They will have me in a ball and chains yet, if I have to read any more of these! Would you believe that like nearly 45.253 others on WDC, These four line verses were my favourite line arrangements for poetry. Until today that is. For the future I will write five line limericks and cinquains and tercets too! God have mercy upon bored reviewers! But it is not your fault that I have waded though a sea of these! The natural cadence of the pattern lends itself to your clop-clop. Nice rhyme choice abab(also one of the most popular)Your rhymes are all direct and neat except for the minor blink I had at 'horse/course'; in my lexicon one had a slightly longer vowel sound than the other. No biggie though!
Meter: The first verse just accidentally achieved 7-9-7-9; so I just bowed my head in awe! Mood, Rhyme, and Rhythm too! But, no - Yay! you're just as "Yuman" as the rest of us! The second verse was nowhere as metric! I have seen these seasoned poets who could chew up my efforts and spit 'em out corrected, all in the blink of an eye. They write Sestinas and garland poetry and Ballads and Odes, and get the stresses of iambic and anapestic meter perfect. (One Guy who who normally writes marvels of Dark fiction tossed out one of those, and when I complimented his artistry - he said he was just 'trying' his hand' at something he didn't know! Hmmph! Some people get all the brains and I have to make do with the quarter teaspoonful that fell to my lot!) prostrate myself before their genius, but it is nice to meet some regular guys too! You poem has a natural rhythm though that is very pleasing!
Grammar: I saw you! You used a comma, and a hyphen! Ah, that marks you as one seasoned in punctuation. But why are the ending lines of verses not marked with a period then? Some other places where a comma might have been used but isn't - that had me bewildered! Or, are your commas bewitched too? I put mine in, and bind 'em with glue, I do. But they get up and walk away, I swear! *Hangs head in shame* It's OK, the judges never believe me either!
"Now masqueraded they run shrieking
Unable to hide their betrayal" I'd have bunged a comma in there somewhere and hoped for the best!
Poetry Form: Any specific form here, and do not say "Quatrain" unless you want a spell cast upon you!
Poem as a whole: I liked this lurid little tale! "No need to panic folks, he's not after the living! Ooops, unless he kills you first, Runnnnn!" There was little logic to it, for instance - one does not seek greed, it is greed that makes one seek. But, heck, who's looking for logic, here?
Remarks: For just the mood you created and the great sound effects, you get a BIG ![Thumbsup *Thumbsup*](https://images.Writing.Com/imgs/writing.com/writers/e21/thumbsup.png) ![Check2 *Check2*](https://images.Writing.Com/imgs/writing.com/writers/e21/check2.png)
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Jyo
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