Analysis of Redshirt
As Bob stood outside the Enterprise,
waiting to be beamed aboard “Energise!”
finally leaving the academy in his new shirt
neatly pressed and with not a spec of dirt
Bob can now explore beyond his skies
Bob kept his shirt spotless per tradition
and wrote in his journal of every mission
from the smallest menial tasks to
beaming down with the landing crew
sometimes in dangerous conditions
After all Starfleet was at war
and it was not long before
enemy fire was killing no one of note
only one or two in a crimson coat
that’s ok it’s what Bob trained for
The explosion in the bulkhead
should have left no dead
but all of his training aside
it was inevitable that he died
after all Bobs shirt was red
Scheme | AABBA CCDDX EEFFE GGHHG |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (25%) |
Metre | 11111010 10111011 10010001000111 1010110111 111010111 1111101010 010110110010 101010011 10110101 010100010 1011111 0111101 100101101111 1011100101 11111111 0010001 11111 11111001 1101000111 1011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 710 |
Words | 135 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 141 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
About this poem
another Startrek poem this one is playing on the trope that all the expendable cast members wear red shirts. and only redshirts die in startrek.
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