Analysis of Rudderless Leadership
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Using the last remnants of common sense.
Can explain why truth to face and its reality,
Continues to be disbelieved.
Refused and blatantly ignored.
All aboard going down with a ship.
Remaining faithful and loyal,
To the obviousness...
Of its rudderless leadership.
And it known.
This movement began,
Emploding from within...
Minds detached; overwhelmingly fictioned.
Yet...
As a sea breeze whips,
Seriously tilting this sinking ship.
Leaning to raise together to hear click.
Are those on this ship sipping champagne.
Staying to prove a power to obtain,
Controls and rules.
But...
Over what?
Abandoned sandcastles?
Eventually destroyed by kept delusions?
Or the reality of high tides?
'What now should we do?
A powerful storm,
Seems to have ignored our celebration.
And texts messages sent,
To our beloved captain.
Sitting on his throne home alone.
Have stopped giving us directions.
Should we turn our backs to look away?'
'No!
Let us adorn our capes and warrior costumes.
Wave our swords.
And pretend we are brave heroes.
Like we have done many times before.'
'But...
We were then on shore.
Rehearsing our heroics.'
'And...
The difference is what?
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1001101101 10111110110 010111 01010001 101101101 01010010 101 1110010 011 11001 1101 10101001 1 10111 1000101101 1011010111 111111001 1011010101 0101 1 101 0101 010000111010 1010111 11111 01001 1110110010 011001 1100110 10111101 11101010 1111011101 1 1101101010001 1101 00111110 111110101 1 10111 01010010 0 010011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,107 |
Words | 189 |
Sentences | 35 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 15, 5, 8, 5, 3, 2 |
Lines Amount | 42 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 129 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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