Analysis of Dirt
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Some folks are hired,
To either create...
Or dig up dirt on others.
However...
Digging up dirt to discover,
It easily found and dumped to find...
Belonging to one,
Hoping to undermine.
With drooling scandal.
Dripping with delicious controversy?
Years ago to know,
How much people can not let go...
Of gossip.
No matter how old that gossip is.
Will be that someone,
Dumping their own dirt.
Where it is easy to find.
And collected...
Without mistakening,
Who it is in pictures posing...
In nothing else but a wide smile!
'We were assigned to dig up dirt,
On this guy.
Not only is the dirt much older,
Than the internet and cellphones.
But look at the pictures.
Autographed.
What joke is this?'
'Well...
Who is naked and smiling?
And this 'dirt'?
It even has a date on it.
1974.
Long before 'selfies' were taken.
And self righteousness,
Became the rage.
Plus...
That old stuff to call 'dirt'...
Can be seen on TV, MOVIES.
And in the halls of justice.'
'Yeah, but...
Today?
They don't call that dirt!'
'Oh? Sooo...
What do they call that garbage?'
'A way of life,
Truth is trying to destroy.'
'And here we are,
Looking to dig up filth.
And hidden unadmitted dirt,
On someone posing with it.
While deceiving creeps,
Are crawling around everywhere.
Lieing through,
Their chicklet size white teeth.'
'That's their 'normalcy' preferred.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110 11001 1111110 10 10111010 110010111 01011 10110 11010 101010100 10111 11101111 110 110111101 1111 10111 1111011 0010 011 11101010 01011011 10011111 111 110101110 101001 111010 10 1111 1 1110010 011 11010111 1 1011010 01100 0101 1 111111 11111110 0001110 11 01 11111 11 1111110 0111 1110101 0111 101111 01011 111011 10101 1100110 11 11111 1110001 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,273 |
Words | 236 |
Sentences | 43 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 21, 7, 12, 3, 2, 2, 8, 1 |
Lines Amount | 56 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 124 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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