Analysis of Rules
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
What purpose do rules serve?
To implement and document them made.
If hypocrites sit to make exceptions.
And those exceptions to rules and laws,
Are consciously on a regular basis...
Publicly disobeyed,
By the creators of such rules to value.
Yet openly to display they choose to do,
A frauding of laws outdated and flawed.
However...
Often used,
As a defense mechanism...
Against to prevent,
The ones of a particular ethnicity.
Who are kept reminded,
Where their boundaries are.
Remaining restricted.
To physical...
Although invisible but known and shown,
Mental limits.
You know...
In a subliminal conscious aware of it,
Kind of way!
Like pets to teach,
Who the master is.
To prove they've been domesticated.
While hoping their begging,
Gets them treats to eat.
Received after performing,
A pleasing of tricks to them taught!
'Jump higher.
Jump higher, Rover!
Now...
Rover?
Roll over!
Scheme | XA XXXABBX CXXXXDXDXXX XXX XXDEXEX CCXCC |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (43%) |
Metre | 110111 1100010011 110111010 010101101 11001010010 10001 10010111110 11001011111 01111001 10 101 1001100 01101 011001000100 111010 111001 010010 1100 101001101 1010 11 000100100111 111 1111 10101 11110100 110110 11111 0110010 01011111 110 11010 1 10 110 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 852 |
Words | 144 |
Sentences | 24 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 7, 11, 3, 7, 5 |
Lines Amount | 35 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 115 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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