Analysis of Sci-Fi
Tracy K. Smith 1972
There will be no edges, but curves.
Clean lines pointing only forward.
History, with its hard spine & dog-eared
Corners, will be replaced with nuance,
Just like the dinosaurs gave way
To mounds and mounds of ice.
Women will still be women, but
The distinction will be empty. Sex,
Having outlived every threat, will gratify
Only the mind, which is where it will exist.
For kicks, we'll dance for ourselves
Before mirrors studded with golden bulbs.
The oldest among us will recognize that glow—
But the word sun will have been re-assigned
To the Standard Uranium-Neutralizing device
Found in households and nursing homes.
And yes, we'll live to be much older, thanks
To popular consensus. Weightless, unhinged,
Eons from even our own moon, we'll drift
In the haze of space, which will be, once
And for all, scrutable and safe.
Scheme | XX XX XA XX XX XX XX AX XX XX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111011 11101010 100111111 10111110 1101011 110111 10111101 001011101 1011001110 10011111101 11111001 0110101101 01001111011 1011111101 1010010010001 1010101 0111111101 11000101001 10110101111 001111111 011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 836 |
Words | 159 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 11 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 59 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 13 |
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Written on 2011
Submitted by Drone232 on May 05, 2022
Modified on April 29, 2023
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