Analysis of The Galaxy
When our galactic system
sighs to a frozen halt in space
do you think there will be some remnant
of beauty, of the human race?
Do you think there will be some vestige,
or a sniffle, or a tear?
do you think a greater thinking being
will give a damn, that man was here?
| Scheme | XAXA XXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
| Metre | 11001010 11010101 111111110 11010101 111111110 1010101 1110101010 11011111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 269 |
| Words | 59 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 104 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
About this poem
Just a thought about thinking about our galaxy.
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