Analysis of Alien
Heather Lydia Thornhill 1981 (Manchester)
Can you live off light?
Do aliens live off light?
Is that why they are sometimes small?
Why do humans get hunger pangs?
Why are we evolving into larger beings?
Why don't venus fly traps grow giant if they live off meat and there are more insects than cows?
Did we cocreate this contradiction with our light?
Are we already living off light?
Why are some races small still?
| Scheme | A A X X X X A A X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11111 1100111 11111011 11101101 111010011010 111011110111110111111 11110101101 110101011 1111011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 381 |
| Words | 85 |
| Sentences | 10 |
| Stanzas | 9 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 33 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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