Analysis of When
When they
arrive.
What
will we
see?
How
will they
be?
Like us?
Think
the same?
Same beliefs?
Unlikely.
Truly
alien in
all ways
possible.
No common
ground,
understanding.
Nowhere
to stand.
No peace
pipe to
smoke.
Perhaps
A.I. to
A.I. will
be the
way to
strike
the right
cord.
Find
common
ground.
Working
mathematically
to weave
understanding.
Foster
connections.
Buffering
aliens
one from
the next.
Mathematical
conduits
crisscrossing
voids.
Universal
unions
created
as such.
Speaking
in code
that all
understand.
| Scheme | Text too long |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11 01 1 11 1 1 11 1 11 1 01 101 010 10 1000 11 100 110 1 010 1 11 11 11 1 01 11 11 10 11 1 01 1 1 10 1 10 01000 11 010 10 010 100 100 11 01 0100 100 10 1 010 10 010 11 10 01 11 01 |
| Characters | 512 |
| Words | 102 |
| Sentences | 23 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 58 |
| Lines Amount | 58 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 7 |
| Words per line (avg) | 1 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 408 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 81 |
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Submitted by JohnProphet2 on December 29, 2022
Modified by JohnProphet2 on December 30, 2022
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