Analysis of Assoholic

Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)



Addicted to a self serving righteousness.
And drugged,
On an overdosing of hypocrisy.
The assoholic has arisen.
Staggering.
From one contradiction,
To the next predictable...
Mindless decision made.

Common sense?
Gone.
Insight and clear of vision?
Not there to be theirs with consciousness.
Or anywhere to observe it witnessed.

Too stupored with power to delude.
A power that excludes truth and reality.
Yet...
Determined to abuse,
Entitlements to claim they alone own.

But too late to discover such druthers,
Kept to keep fed to feast.
Eventually finds,
Constipates an unused mind.
Digesting on the taste of a wasted victory.
To either sit or throw up.
Into a toilet to flush out guts.
And all pretensions.
That bad judgements make...
To imitate glory.
With a returning upon them to backfire!
Leaving a smell everyone knows,
Who created to foul the atmosphere!


Scheme AXBCXCXX XXCAX XBXXX XXXXBXXXXBXXX
Poetic Form
Metre 01010110100 01 1110010100 011010 100 11010 1010100 100101 101 1 101110 111111100 110101110 11110101 0101011010 1 010101 0100111011 1111010110 111111 010001 101011 0101011010100 1101111 010101111 01010 11101 11010 1001001111 1001101 101011010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 831
Words 140
Sentences 25
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 8, 5, 5, 13
Lines Amount 31
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 171
Words per stanza (avg) 35
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Submitted by lpahtillah on September 07, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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