Analysis of Very Few If Any
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Very few if any,
Are seen in the streets...
Desperately seeking,
Truth and reality.
Especially among the many,
Observed...
Refusing to believe,
Their lives to live smothered in denial...
Are overdosing on prescribed medications.
Hoping to stay away as far as possible,
From threats to protect and defend...
A way of life,
Kept normalized by pretensions.
And fading delusions fictioned to create.
Very few if any,
Are witnessed these days...
Protesting against,
The absence and use of common sense.
Once too common to question,
Where it has gone to be found around.
Or why is it,
The rise of mental illnesses...
Has become more diagnosed as stress.
To define and depict,
Those clearly out of their minds...
Are in need of professional assistance.
And funding will cure and mend it all,
With a teaching of proper diet...
Exercise and the discipline of meditation!
'Sounds good.
Now...
How will that effect,
The rights and entitlements people have?'
'Rights?
Entitlements?
To do what?'
'To purchase their weapons.
And protect themselves,
From the ones who refuse to accept...
Being threatened by too much peace.'
'Those rights to keep suspicious of others,
Should not affect...
The ones accustomed,
To look for threats.
Or create their own to feel protected.
But first we must get the funding,
To establish a reason...
For hiring police and security guards.'
'Why?
To create jobs for ourselves.
How do you think,
Institutions begin?
First...
We identify the problem.
Then declare a need for funding.
Declare the community will benefit.
And the experience of it,
Will heal, cure, mend and fix...
Everyone's mental problems.'
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101110 11001 100010 1010 01001010 01 010101 1111100010 1100101010 101101111100 11101001 0111 1101010 0100101101 101110 11011 01001 010011101 1110110 111111101 1111 01110100 10110111 101001 1101111 10110100010 010110111 101011010 10001001010 11 1 11101 0100100101 1 0100 111 110110 00101 101101101 10101111 1111010110 1101 01010 1111 1011111010 11111010 1010010 11001001001 1 10111001 1111 01001 1 1010010 10101110 01001001100 00010011 111101 101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,634 |
Words | 332 |
Sentences | 42 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 14, 15, 4, 3, 4, 8, 11 |
Lines Amount | 59 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 180 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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Written on July 08, 2022
Submitted by lpahtillah on July 08, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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