Analysis of Mary Shelley, The Story



Mary Shelley, The Story

Everyone looking at the monster, just a raggedly dressed man
Put into motion, never our creation, we only let it out, free to play
Mimicking our motions, like a flower, the story blossoms in all directions
The monster learned joys of life by listening to peasants’ life in a simple hut
The monster is not the monster that is created inside our heartless souls
The hardest message, empower ourselves, without overpowering others

Guided by experience, she wove the first modern science fiction story
Creating powerful supernatural shackles, of our own designs and making
Life comes from the simplest places, even rocks can supply the sparks
Our virtual world we have composed, temporarily, momentarily, inflating egos
Powering most of our creations, our egos, our thoughts, pulling our strings
It doesn’t have to be that way, its only us, can’t blame nature or nurture

Attempting to harness the powers of life, that starts the story rolling
A small part of the tale, but we don’t control life, and never will
Our three dimensional flat world existence, only works by draining life
Real educations replenishes all life, doesn’t include our personal styles of lies
Human first, the ultimate failure of evolution, well documented propaganda
Infinity exists, but what we take in our hands, can take forever to refill


Scheme A XXXXXX ABXXXX BCXXXC
Poetic Form
Metre 1010010 1010101010111 101101010010110111111 100101010100101001010 01011111100110100101 01011010110100110101 0101001000101101010 1010100110110101010 010100010010110101010 1110101010110101 10100111010100010001010 1001110010101010110101 111111111011110110 010110010111101010 0111011110110101 1010100110101011101 101011110110100111 10101001010101100010 0100011111010111010110
Characters 1,350
Words 225
Sentences 1
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 1, 6, 6, 6
Lines Amount 19
Letters per line (avg) 57
Words per line (avg) 12
Letters per stanza (avg) 271
Words per stanza (avg) 55

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Mary Shelley's story was much more than just a story about a monster.

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Submitted by rzwilling on January 01, 2022

Modified by rzwilling on January 01, 2022

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