Analysis of Numbers Without Words

Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)



A picture can paint a thousand words.
Or less.
Unless...
That picture to paint it,
By numbers and no words.
Creates a disturbance,
Heard from those...
Participating in a group activity.

As instructed.
Each is given a number.
With a specific color.
To eventually piece together.
A clear and true representation,
Of the United States of America.

However...
Disagreements and heated,
Arguments between them start.

You see...
None will agree,
That the picture is what it should be.
Since...
The appearance of it,
Is too colorful.
And...
Not completely white.

'Stop it!
Stop this nonsense.
If that picture seen,
Was completely white.
How would any of you determine,
It was the United States?'

'Well...
Suppose there was a wall,
Around what it is.
Giving us the freedom...
To imagine where it is and could be.
If we did our best to convince,
Ourselves and everybody else?'

'This project...
Could not have been made,
More simpler than it is.
And you prefer a painted wall,
Surrounding a blank empty space?
What sense does that make?
And...
Who would know,
If it is the United States or not?'

'That's a very good question.
Not even our elected politicians,
Would know that answer!'

'Well...
Maybe they should be the ones,
To show us where it is.
To help us define,
How it should look.
Before that wall is painted!
And...
Who is kept within it.
And why others are left out!
Either way...
Wouldn't that make the white of it,
More restricted to limits?

'This is a project!
Not a debate.
Where do you people come from?'

'It's just a guess.
By I would say...
Our parents!?


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Poetic Form
Metre 010110101 11 01 110111 110011 010010 111 01000010100 1010 1110010 1001010 1010001010 01010010 10010110100 10 010010 1000111 11 1101 101011111 1 001011 11100 0 10101 11 1110 11101 10101 111011010 1100101 1 011101 01111 101010 1010111011 111101101 00101001 110 11111 1100111 01010101 01001101 11111 0 111 1110010111 1010110 11010010010 11110 1 1011101 111111 11101 1111 0111110 0 111011 0110111 101 10110111 1010110 11010 1001 1111011 1101 1111 1010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 1,492
Words 279
Sentences 51
Stanzas 11
Stanza Lengths 8, 6, 3, 8, 6, 7, 9, 3, 12, 3, 3
Lines Amount 68
Letters per line (avg) 17
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 107
Words per stanza (avg) 25
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Submitted by lpahtillah on May 17, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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