Analysis of The Extra Terrestrial
A decade ago, one cold winter’s day
I met a creature in the woods
That stood on spindly legs
And dressed in ugly rags
His head was bigger than a melon,
And he had eyes of speckled grey
And his hands were talons
And when he spoke he sounded
Just like the Queen when
She delivered her ‘New years message’
But when he blinked
An extraordinary thing took place
He grew and grew until
He was thrice bigger than me!
I screamed for help afraid
He would hurt me
But simply said “ Don’t cry,
Nor do I want to hurt you! ”
For I simply want directions
Pinpointing the planet Xeroxes,
My heavenly home planet
You should have seen his tears
When I told him, his home
Was 2000 light years away?
His disappointing sigh
But now he lives inside my bag
And comes to school with me!
Scheme | AXXXXABXXX XXXCXCDXBXXXXADXC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0010111101 11010001 11111 010101 111101010 01111101 011010 0111110 11011 101001110 1111 10100111 110101 1111011 111101 1111 110111 1111111 11101010 10010100 1100110 111111 111111 11101 10101 11110111 011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 776 |
Words | 155 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 17 |
Lines Amount | 27 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 300 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 75 |
About this poem
This poem is based on what I saw in the woods perhaps I was hallucinating but I made it into a fun poem based around the ideas of ET the movie.
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Written on November 23, 2013
Submitted by taminator2016 on December 08, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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