Analysis of As The Walls Close In
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
As the walls begin,
To slowly close in.
Squeezing pretensions,
From the ones preparing...
For nothing more but to win, win, win!
Strategies planned to implement intended,
To control.
And have power over rules and laws,
To disobey.
With a replacing of them,
To anticipate an applauding of a downfall.
Will for them not happen at all.
Since a government created,
For the people and by the people.
Are determined to leave,
The uniqueness of its quality...
Left as is to become even greater.
While the culprits,
Disguising themselves...
As descendents,
Of wholesome peace loving saints.
Chosen to make better,
A life for all.
Proven this 'ain't,
On their deceiving minds to do.
Today?
They have begun to face,
Those who are not...
Allowing their credibilities.
Nor integrities on a FastTrack to erase.
For the sake of losing,
The faith of the people.
That a few crooked hoodlums believe,
This direction they will and can take.
Done with a doing to fake,
Themselves to be other...
Than working together secretly,
As a demolition team.
The walls,
Are beginning to close in slowly.
And noticeably squeezing pretensions,
Out from guts of those screaming innocence.
Yet...
The proof and evidence publicly revealed,
Eventually has them all...
Locked up and away in prison cells.
Begging for pardons.
Within thick cemented walls.
Yelling for help!
Although...
No one else can hear them.
Or...
Choose to listen.
Like they did to the people.
Deceived to believe would be left behind!
Blinded without minds to use!
Blinded.
As if permanent fools,
They had made successfully!
'And the power,
The power of the Lord.
Will be to have it seen,
Forever!'
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10101 11010 10010 101010 110111111 10011100010 101 011010101 101 1001011 10101010101 11111011 10100010 101001010 101011 001011100 1111011010 1010 01001 1010 1101101 101110 0111 1011 11010111 01 110111 1111 01011 11101101 101110 011010 101101001 101011011 1101011 011110 110010100 100101 01 101011010 0100010010 1111110100 1 01010010001 01000111 110010101 10110 0110101 1011 1 111111 1 1110 1111010 0110111101 1001111 10 111001 1110100 0010 010101 111111 010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,641 |
Words | 343 |
Sentences | 42 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 7, 13, 13, 11, 10, 4 |
Lines Amount | 63 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 182 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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