Analysis of FLOWER POWER
Phil Roberts 1957 (Melbourne)
Just like the Triffids
From Fiction; Flower People
Want to supplant humans.
Looking like sunflowers
Moving on stalk-like legs,
To hunt us all down.
Humanity's last days?
Hunted by a nemesis,
We can't defeat.
Sunflower People
With bright yellow petals,
Shooting out deadly darts.
Both blind and deaf
The Sunflower People sense movement,
To make their kills.
Thriving in sunlight
As well as in rain,
Plant poison cannot hurt them.
Firing off their darts
Their killing humanity,
Thousands each day.
Only in the East
Where humans proliferate,
May the species last.
Fire resistant
Nothing has been found to kill them,
Except rocket fuel?
In 7000 degree fires
Can they be killed,
Or is humanity doomed?
THE END
© Copyright 2021 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Scheme | ABA AAX AAX BAA XCA XXD AXX XXX CDB AXX XAX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101 1101010 110110 10110 101111 11111 010011 1010100 1101 1010 111010 101101 1101 01010110 1111 1001 11101 1101011 10111 1100100 1011 10001 110010 10101 10010 10111111 011010 00110 1111 1101001 01 101010 100100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 740 |
Words | 125 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 11 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 33 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 56 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
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Just like the Triffids From Fiction; Flower People Want to supplant humans.
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