Analysis of THE PODS
A monstrous chamber
Where leafy pods are growing,
In glass cylinders.
In the leafy pods
A horrid writhing breaks out,
Pods about to burst.
Nameless mutant plants?
Or weird dimensional freaks?
Horror writhes within!
A single pod bursts
Out comes a green tentacle,
Writhing like an arm.
A verdant body
Manlike (yet plantlike) follows,
Bursting from the pod.
A leafy monster
Manlike yet alien as well,
Stands outside the pod.
Tentacles smack glass
The cylinders cracks, then breaks,
Out steps the plant beast.
Soon all the pods are
Beginning to burst open:
An army breaks out.
Cylinders explode
The plant creatures step out,
And search round the chamber.
Soon they discover
Stairs leading up and out of,
Their basement prison.
They kill scientists
Whom they discover upstairs,
Tending to the pods.
Then they move onward
Out of the secret lab,
Into the outside world.
Pod creatures marching
Into an unwary world,
Soon they start to kill.
The pod creatures war
Against humanity till,
Terror reigns supreme.
Human beings die
In thousands, then in millions,
As the war goes on.
Pod creatures winning
The human race is dying,
Nothing left to lose.
Atom bombs are used
The pod creatures are dying,
And humanity.
Men and pod creatures
Are all eradicated,
Planet Earth is dead!
THE END
© Copyright 2021, Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Scheme | ABC DEX XXX XXX FXG AXG XXX XHE XEA AXH XXD XXI BIJ XJX XXX BBX XBF CXX XXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01010 1101110 01100 00101 0101011 10111 10101 1101001 10101 01011 1101100 10111 01010 11110 10101 01010 1110011 11101 10011 0100111 11011 11011 0101110 11011 10001 011011 011010 11010 1101011 11010 11100 1101001 10101 11110 110101 010111 11010 0110101 11111 01101 0101001 10101 10101 0101010 10111 11010 0101110 10111 10111 0110110 00100 10110 110100 10111 01 101010 100100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,284 |
Words | 223 |
Sentences | 21 |
Stanzas | 19 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 57 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 56 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 12 |
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A monstrous chamber Where leafy pods are growing, In glass cylinders.
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Written on April 27, 2004
Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on June 24, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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