Analysis of Coma Patient
Daniel Kelty 1963 (St. Louis, MO)
The saucers are approaching now.
Yellow and red lights hover overhead
as they prepare their scanners
to gauge my responses, inserting
suggestions and scenarios
into my ears.
The mouthless terrestrials
measure my cortex, and
illuminate the cerebral lobe,
awaiting my response to the stimuli.
Long rubbery fingers prod
me inquisitively, as if I’m
some rare yielding fauna, hardly
sentient.
Then their strange fluted messages
begin and light from their
undulating heads glows strobe-like
over me.
Decode me alien race, I
am yours. Take me home. Put me
on display for your species
as an example of the marvels
of this wondrous universe.
Scheme | X ABXXX BXXC XXDA XXXD CDXXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01010101 1001110101 1101110 111010010 01000100 0111 011 101100 010001001 0101011010 1100101 11111 11101010 1 1111100 010111 1001111 101 01110011 1111111 1011110 110101010 111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 663 |
Words | 123 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 5, 4, 4, 4, 5 |
Lines Amount | 23 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 86 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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Published in the on-line journal "Ravensperch"
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