Analysis of ROBOTOID
A tall, faceless man
Shiny and golden. Robot?
Or some nameless fiend?
A smooth, plastic face
No eyes, no nose, and no mouth,
Shiny, hairless pate.
Cold, heartless being
Manlike, yet so inhuman,
Living, or manmade?
Icy cold fingers
So cold that they sting your flesh,
Shivers run through you.
Strong as a superman
The robotoid could crush steel,
Or a human throat.
A thinking machine
Not mere robot; metal man,
A manmade creature.
Is the robotoid good?
Or is it pure evil?
Is it amoral?
Perhaps we’ll never know
Perhaps he’s too cunning,
To let us find out.
Should we trust him? No!
But we can still work with him,
If we take great care!
THE END
© Copyright 2021 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
| Scheme | AXX XXX BCX XXX CXX XAX XDD EBX EXX XXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) Tetractys (23%) |
| Metre | 01101 100101 11101 01101 1111011 10101 11010 111010 10111 10110 1111111 10111 110100 01111 10101 01001 111101 01110 1011 111110 11010 011101 011110 11111 11111 1111111 11111 01 101010 100100010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 688 |
| Words | 126 |
| Sentences | 16 |
| Stanzas | 10 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 30 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 55 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 13 |
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A tall, faceless man Shiny and golden. Robot? Or some nameless fiend?
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Written on February 11, 2009
Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on June 25, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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