Analysis of Following Along
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Following along behind others to believe,
A riding upon their coattails...
Is one's way to obtain,
To gain popularity and votes received.
In debates won to win.
With approval done to achieve,
From another who leads...
The people clearly deceived?
Leaving one who follows,
Left tricked and duped.
And made publicly to appear,
Looking like a fool.
While standing besides someone who knows,
There is only one with an ego.
That the people support to endorse.
And others who are 'wannabees',
Could never come close.
Imitating.
As the leader already picked by the people.
Turns to the audience and says to admit:
'I've come to admire,
The performance and the act of it.
An act I was born to perform,
With the highest degree of excellence.
However...
Who in their right mind,
Would choose a substitute?
When the 'real' thing,
Has already been declared your choice.
Does that make sense?
I think not!
Applaud this attempt with your approval,
Of this joker's mental miscalculation.
With a polite removing,
This clown off 'my' stage!
Everybody, EVERYBODY...
Thinks what I do is easy to duplicate!'
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 100010110101 0100111 111101 1101000101 001111 10101101 101011 0101001 101110 1101 01100101 10101 11001111 111011110 101001101 0101110 11011 100 101001011010 11010001101 11101 001000111 11111101 1010011100 10 10111 11010 1011 101010111 1111 111 0110111010 1111001010 1001010 11111 100100 11111101100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,089 |
Words | 221 |
Sentences | 24 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 20, 17 |
Lines Amount | 37 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 424 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 92 |
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