Analysis of Better Than You Have It
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
You are no different than the others.
Others wanting it better.
Better than they have it.
To have it served yet not to earn.
Or know the meaning of what it takes,
To get up off a butt stuck...
As if glued to beliefs,
Only TV can deliver to retrieve.
With a doing to bring relief,
To a lazy mind.
A laziness that miraculously changes,
Into immediate action.
An action quickly motivating,
A nonexistent reality with incentive.
Without blood, sweat or tears.
To invest.
Or achieving what is wanted,
With physical movement...
To volunteer as a needed ingredient.
'Snap out of it.'
Anything to dream it long enough,
Is possible.
Like lies to tell if repeatedly told,
For many and to themselves.
Do come true.
And the consequences to pay?
Tremendous.
Beyond belief!
'Clean up this mess you've created.
And in the bathroom?
There you will find a bath tub.
Once filled with warm water,
Take off your clothes and experience...
What a difference it makes.
Or...
Choose to take a shower.
Discover hygiene and its meaning.'
'You talk to me,
As if I am some uncivilized creature!'
'And...
You point to make?
Is what?
The obvious?
Or disbelief?
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111001010 1010110 101111 11111111 110101111 1111011 111101 10111010101 10101101 10101 010010100010 01010010 11010100 0010101010 011111 101 10101110 110010 10110100100 1111 10111101 1100 1111101001 1100101 111 0010011 010 0101 11111010 0001 1111011 111110 111100100 1010011 1 111010 01010110 1111 11111010010 0 1111 11 0100 101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,089 |
Words | 202 |
Sentences | 34 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 11, 1, 8, 9, 2, 5 |
Lines Amount | 44 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 124 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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