Analysis of Your Question
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Your question to ask,
As serious as the look on your face.
Is...
If there could be a mate for truth.
Would it be a cemented commitment?
And...
If vows had not been lawfully exchanged,
How seriously...
Should truth take,
This potential mate in the first place!
Am I understanding,
This to be your question?
'For the most part, yes.'
I see.
And just how long,
Has this 'question' been on your mind?
'Not long at all.
I'm just curious.
Everywhere I go,
People seem offended by truth told.
And this I know...
Deceivers have their liars.
Right?
Crooks have their thieves.
Disguised in the most incredible costumes.
Yet truth can not seem to keep,
Honesty around for too long!
They don't seem to get a long.
Wassup with that?
What is it about truth that turns people off?'
I wish,
Right now...
It was Autumn.
And I was a Maple or Oak tree.
And the people would come,
Just to see...
The leaves on my limbs and branches,
Change colors.
And...
That's all they would expect from me.
That's it.
Nothing else!
And as the Winter approaches,
There I am...
Standing naked.
With no one to care or notice,
I might miss the leaves...
To have fallen off me.
'Uh...
Saying you don't know these days,
Is okay.
However...
You standing bare naked,
Pretending to be a tree without leaves?
Could be of some benefit to me,
In the chat rooms.
Social media.
If you know what I'm saying?
You feel me?
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011 1100101111 1 11110111 1110010010 0 1111110001 11000 111 101010011 11010 111110 10111 11 0111 11101111 1111 11100 1011 101010111 0111 11110 1 1111 01001010001 1111111 10001111 1111101 111 11101111101 11 11 1110 011010111 001011 111 01111010 110 0 11110111 11 101 01010010 111 1010 11111110 11101 111011 1 1011111 11 10 110110 0101101011 111110011 0011 10100 1111110 111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,314 |
Words | 255 |
Sentences | 44 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 2, 1, 3, 14, 8, 10, 11 |
Lines Amount | 59 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 114 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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