Analysis of Electric Oracle
It started with sounds
Chirping and squawking
Hand signals and pointing
Banging the logs
Pumping out signals
Sending the news
Then for the distance
Legs and feet
Smoke clouds followed
Relays were made
The distances expanded
Hides bones and clay
On papers and parchment
The symbols did multiply
The waters were crossed
Then wires were sparking
And sparks flew the air
With music and dreams
Anything carried
Wondering out loud
Silently wandering inside
The noise will follow
For now you can
Turn it down
Miracles the magic screen
Once was a tube
Glowing x-rays with heat
Now flat and bloody
Rare earth elements
Often guiding
Sometimes inspirational
Happy images transmitted
Sad images let fly
Photons whip across rooms
Smack into the beholders eye
Locked in the mind
Sounds with images bind
Modulated video
Theatrical medium
Almost true
Following trends of thought
Many feel it is just a view
A harbinger of events
Mostly not true
For others a recipe
A prescription of fate
Guidance to the end
Shows for many
Projected by a few
The future for now
Shows what is happening
On screen and off
Scheme | XAAXXX XBXXX XXCXAXXXX XDXXXXBEX AXXCXCFFDXG XGXGEXX EGXAX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011 10010 110010 1001 10110 1001 11010 101 1110 101 0100010 1101 110010 010110 01001 110010 01101 11001 1010 10011 10010001 01110 1111 111 1000101 1101 101111 11010 11100 1010 010100 10100010 110011 11011 101011 1001 111001 1000100 0100100 11 100111 10111101 0100101 1011 1100100 001011 10101 1110 010101 01011 111100 1101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,109 |
Words | 195 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 5, 9, 9, 11, 7, 5 |
Lines Amount | 52 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 129 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
About this poem
TeleVision Land
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Written on 2012
Submitted by rzwilling on April 18, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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