Analysis of The war to end all worlds
Phil Roberts 1957 (Melbourne)
Spacemen are fighting
Space rebels are hiding,
One more lonely star set
As killers move on in;
Spacemen are dying
In the far off place Orion
As a battle rages on
A war no one can win.
Space beasts are roaring
Killing machines are soaring,
Through the darkness of deep space
Where no one before has been;
Space beasts are flying
Soon they will be crying,
Roaring out their fears
Of a war no one can win.
Space maidens are cooing
Spacemen they are wooing,
To fight and die and battle
Saving honour of virgins;
Space maidens call
Across the field of war,
Men and beasts lay fallen
In a war no one shall win.
Across the voids of space
Light-speed fighters race,
To still a new revolt
On a world of ceaseless din;
Where terror-struck are screaming
Acidic mists are steaming,
As battle cruisers roar by
Doing battle none can win.
Soaring toward another goal
They pass a small sun known as Sol,
Across unnameable light-years
Where they have never been before;
With a flash like lightning
A laser flash is striking,
Past the planet Venus until
The third planet is no more.
THE END
© Copyright 2021, Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Scheme | AAXBACXB AADBAAEB AAXXXFCB DDXBAAXB XXEFAAXF XXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110 110110 111011 110110 1110 00111010 1010101 011111 11110 1001110 1010111 1110111 11110 111110 10111 1011111 110110 11110 1101010 101110 1101 010111 101110 0011111 010111 11101 110101 1011101 1101110 0101110 1101011 1010111 10010101 11011111 01111 11110101 101110 0101110 10101001 0110111 01 101010 100100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,096 |
Words | 204 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 3 |
Lines Amount | 43 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 151 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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