Analysis of Obtained To Remain Maintained
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
One's peace of mind,
That has taken years to earn.
Should never become a debate,
One participates in debating to protect...
Or expect to defend,
By those who agitate and question...
The value one has to keep prioritize,
What one knows is priceless to have.
And if this blessing bestowed,
Continues to go on being disrespected?
Faith kept in God,
Observed to witness with this shown...
The ones who shine and polish their swords,
With threatening to perceive...
Fear is the life one of peace of mind and faith,
Achieved?
Eventually are victims seen,
Falling upon their own swords.
Blaming to accuse themselves of being,
Abused by a system...
Creating delusions to fiction,
Heros with weapons used to threaten...
Are chosen to perform,
In full masquerade to charade imitating...
How peace to achieve it,
Is a physical experience to inflict.
Without the power of God to rely upon,
To deliver peace to receive internally.
Leaving this truth and reality,
Seldom mentioned by hypocrites.
Known to invest in their guns.
And an assortment of medications.
In the hopes this corrects,
The rising of their mental illnesses.
Done to cure and prevent,
Truth and its reality from being too real.
To keep running away from the affects,
Overflowing...
Hospitals.
Prisons.
And accommodating funeral homes.
At a price,
Obtained to remain maintained expensive!
For a pretentiousness repeatedly,
Addressed to protect images to idolize...
The appearances of impressions made.
'And...uh...once again.
What has any of this have to do,
With one's peace of mind?
To have achieved and earned.'
Observation.
And the recognition to acknowledge,
One's own ignorance.
Participating.
Thoughtlessly seeking attention to get!
'With you,
It's always about division, bigotry and racism.
And who creates conflict.
Isn't it?'
You bring that up.
As if preparing to defend your beliefs.
Taught to you to teach.
Wishing with a want to argue about,
The disadvantages of being a 'Christian'.
And I am discussing,
My experiences in achieving peace of mind.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111 1110111 11001001 10100010101 101101 11110010 0101111010 11111011 0111001 01011110010 1101 01110111 011101011 1100101 11011111101 01 010001101 1001111 1010101110 011010 010010110 101101110 110101 0101101100 111011 101000100101 010101110101 101011010100 1011010 1010110 1101011 010101010 001101 0101110100 111001 1011011011 1110011001 100 10 10 001001001 101 0110101010 1010100 01101100110 0010010101 101 111011111 11111 110101 010 000101010 11100 0100 11001011 11 1101010100010 010110 101 1111 11010101101 11111 1010111001 00100110010 011010 1010000010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 2,018 |
Words | 396 |
Sentences | 43 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 46, 4, 5, 4, 7 |
Lines Amount | 66 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 317 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 65 |
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