Analysis of Mending To Heal

Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)



Mending to heal...
From an aching pain created,
By an atmosphere sickened...
With people feeding on negativity.
And social illiteracy.
Will take the facing to chase away, Ignorance.
All of it.
For what it is.
To know,
The avoiding of any problem to fix it quick.
Doesn't get fix quick.
Then pretend a suffering to feel it,
Does not exist.

Denial is overdue for its own holiday.

I'm having a personal reasoning 'convo'.
Okay?
Do you mind?
I digress. It happens.

Well...
Where was I?
Oh yes.
Folks waste a lot of time,
Analyzing what they should do.
And which too late direction to take.
To wonder why,
They are looking at the back of a train.
Speeding away from them.
Only to awaken to realize,
What is seen, shown and known...
To be habitually self inflicted,
Will seldom be thought...
A priority of someone else to believe,
Their responsibility...
To bring that to the attention,
Of the one causing their own grief.


Scheme XXXAAXBXXCCBX D EDXX XFXXXXFXXXXXXEAXE
Poetic Form Tetractys  (40%)
Metre 1011 11101010 111010 1101010100 01001000 110101101100 111 1111 11 0010110101111 10111 1010100111 1101 010110111110 11001001001 1 111 101110 1 111 11 110111 1001111 011101011 1101 1110101101 100111 101010110 111101 11010001010 11011 00100111101 100100 11110010 10110111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 890
Words 165
Sentences 28
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 13, 1, 4, 17
Lines Amount 35
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 175
Words per stanza (avg) 41
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Submitted by lpahtillah on July 01, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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