Analysis of Planted sentinels
GIDRAF MWANGI 1992 (Murang'a)
Plants are in all intents and purposes sentient
And any serious observation will prove it so
But how in God's name do they 'think'?
And do they have a brain of sorts?
Will we ever hold a conversation with them?
Can they be considered as true aliens?
Are they planted sentinels
Out to spy on the alien race of man?
Or are they alien scientists
Out to pick and prod the animalistic man
By changing the diet and weather
And observing the change in chemistry?
Or are they wooden Trojan horse conquerors
That fooled us at the very dawn of life
And made us into their cultivar slaves
By making us completely dependent
In our core needs of diet, fuel and housing?
Or they are simply our strange symbiotic siblings
From our dear mother nature
Born dumb and slow of thought
They silently and patiently provide us
And born with rigid limbs
They unmovingly stand with us
In all our needs
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010101001 0101000101111 11011111 01110111 11101001011 11101011100 1110100 11110100111 111100100 11101011 110010010 0010010100 11110101100 1111010111 01101111 1101010010 0101111010010 1111010101010 11011010 110111 11000100011 011101 11111 01101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 880 |
Words | 172 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 5, 6, 1 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 141 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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