Analysis of Slowly Bought and Sold
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Slowly bought and sold.
From the top to the bottom.
Inside and out.
With a doing of it,
To bring tons of money to a table.
Done to sell and feed,
Remnants left owning that too.
Of a once democracy.
But convinced to believe,
A quality of life increasingly becoming...
Diversified and qualified to identify,
The truth of its ethnic image undenied...
Is the reason why thise blind and can not see.
Has created the greatest democracy,
Nowhere else on Earth,
Had experienced the birth of this reality.
And now today,
Slowly bought.
From the top to the bottom.
Inside and out.
With tons of money to a table.
For the greedy feeding their selfish needs.
Done to sell,
A quality of life and the value of a future,
Forever to leave that possibility behind.
To appease a greeting,
Of those who actually believe...
Selling out will bring about a power to have it.
Controlled by others who own their souls!
'Isn't it great,
That our once established institutions.
And now in the hands of the ones,
Who promise...
They will fo the best they can,
Far away on foreign lands.
To ensure what they now alone today own.
Meets with the acceptance and approval,
Of those who sold their souls.
Believing anything they are told.
When money is involved.
And fiction to delude erases common sense!'
'Yep.
And...
Believe this or not,
That chicken promised to be in every pot?
Is nothing but bones.
Flavored to savor the scent and aroma,
Of your ongoing to stay the way dreams.'
'Why?
Why do you always find to observe,
A negativity around nowhere to be seen.
Why?'
'I Love chicken.
Baked, or fried.
Or in a pot of soup.
To know...
If the chicken is not there to prepare myself?
With added ingredients I enjoy and pick.
Awaiting for someone else,
To do what I can do to cook and taste?
Will not anytime soon,
Satisfy my appetite.'
'There's no winning with you is it?'
'Little gambling do I do.
Especially when it comes to my stomach.
And as of yet,
Have I sat to sit...
Awaiting for a chef,
To come out of a kitchen...
What a sample from a menu,
To taste what has been cooked!
Not yet!
But I am told miracles do happen.'
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Metre | 10101 1011010 0101 101011 1111101010 11101 1011011 1010100 101101 0100110100010 0100101010 011110101 10101110111 10100100100 1111 10100011110 0101 101 1011010 0101 111101010 1010101101 111 01001100101010 010111010001 101010 11110001 1011101010111 011101111 1011 1101010010 01001101 110 1110111 1011101 10111101011 1100100010 111111 01010111 110101 010101010101 1 0 01111 110101101001 11011 10110010010 111011011 1 11111101 00100011111 1 1110 111 100111 11 10101111011 110010010101 010111 1111111101 11101 10110 11101111 10100111 0101111110 0111 11111 010101 1111010 10101010 111111 11 1111100110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 2,100 |
Words | 466 |
Sentences | 52 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 16, 13, 12, 7, 4, 10, 1, 10 |
Lines Amount | 73 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 200 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 48 |
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