Analysis of AMBULENT PLANTS
Ambulant plant life
Plants that move and even hunt,
Once this planet had
Small, primitive animals,
Now only plants exist here.
Mammals, reptiles, bugs
Even tiny dinosaurs
Once roamed and hunted,
Now they’re yellow skeletons
That the plants still feed upon.
Animals were fast
But nowhere near as rapid
As ambulant plants,
So plants hunted and feasted
Till the animals were gone.
Shooting out tendrils
Vines that sap vital fluids
From the animals,
The plants hunted squealing beasts
Terrified by moving plants.
Shrieking, bleating beasts
Futilely tried to outrun
The ambulant plants,
But soon the race was finished
Animals were defeated.
So flesh-eating plants
Began to eat each other
To manage to live,
After the last animals
Had been eliminated.
THE END
© Copyright 2021, Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Scheme | XXXAX XXBXX XBCXX AXADC DXCXB CXXAB XXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111 1110101 11101 1100100 1101011 10101 101010 11010 1110100 1011101 10001 111110 111 1110010 1010001 1011 1111010 10100 0110101 101101 1011 11101 011 1101110 1000010 11101 0111110 11011 1001100 110100 01 101010 100100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 788 |
Words | 130 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 3 |
Lines Amount | 33 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 95 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Ambulant plant life Plants that move and even hunt, Once this planet had Small, primitive animals, Now only plants exist here.
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Written on February 11, 2009
Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on June 26, 2021
Modified on March 21, 2023
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