Analysis of Is this Progress?
Technology’s labeled progression
for knowledge, it lets us explore.
Perhaps, name should change to regression,
for life was much better before.
We held no remotes in the hand.
No click of a button to make.
To change tv channel we’d stand.
Would force us, a few steps to take.
In head, sums would be calculated
and books were not buried in dust.
Imagination, was created.
for thinking was process to trust.
Existed no texting for sending
with others to show how we feel.
The words were then spoken, unending.
In past, conversations were real.
The memory of smile never faded.
A hug, would our troubles embrace.
No chance to be truth masqueraded
with mask of a photoshopped face.
Back then, children touched rays of sunlight.
Envisioned all planets unseen
while rolling in grass with delight,
when life was not lived on a screen.
What happens if progress keeps growing?
What will be the future we face?
AI will take over, all knowing.
Of mankind, no longer a trace.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH EICI JKJK GIGI |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 110010 11011101 011111010 11111001 1111001 11101011 11111011 11101111 01111100 01011001 00101010 1101111 01011110 11011111 010110010 0101001 0100111010 011101001 111111 111011 11101111 01011001 11001101 11111101 11011110 11101011 11110110 11111001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 996 |
Words | 196 |
Sentences | 22 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 109 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
About this poem
I enjoy the advantages of technology but fear where it’s headed.
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Written on February 04, 2024
Submitted by Giselavigil on February 04, 2024
Modified by Giselavigil on February 04, 2024
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