Analysis of Changing Laws
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Changing laws.
To appease and satisfy,
The doing of deceivers and thieves.
Guaranteeing a win not to earn it.
Yet doing this illegally to receive,
A stolen recognition.
'How much further out,
On the field of play...
Will they move the goal line?'
'As far as they can.
Until their delusions to fiction them,
Becomes everyone's obsession...
To accept a reality so outrageous.
And too overwhelming ridiculous,
No one will refuse...
Fools proving to be who they are!'
'But...
What about the quality of life?'
'Before or after,
It had been...
Dysfunctional normal?
Or...
When mental illness became the rage?'
'Gee wow!
I don't know which one I prefer.
Since today's crazy has become addicting.'
'And to think...
The children of today,
Accept this madness as their normal.
To keep defended.
As the best years of their messed up lives!
Scheme | XXXXXA XBX XXACCXX XX DXEXX XDX XBEXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101 101010 0101101 010011111 11010100101 010010 11101 10111 111011 11111 0110101101 0110010 1010101010 010100100 11101 11011111 1 101010011 01110 111 010010 1 110100101 11 11111101 10110101010 011 010101 011101110 11010 101111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 798 |
Words | 145 |
Sentences | 24 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 3, 7, 2, 5, 3, 5 |
Lines Amount | 31 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 90 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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