Analysis of Capacity
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
The mind?
We all are born to have one.
And it has a capacity unlimited.
Boundless without restrictions.
Or have the use of it seen.
What goes in all of our minds,
Stays stored within a memory.
And that which comes out,
Is picked to select.
Finding its way through one's mouth.
Letting it known,
Not too much is dropped.
From one's memory.
Forgotten unremembered.
Although many will say convincingly,
About a forgiving to forget...
Unwarranted misdeeds to them done.
To have this believed,
By those confessing their apologies.
To then test the forgiver,
Delivering their forgiveness to get...
Heard and received.
To once again believe,
Over and over again...
Those same misdeeds,
Will again receive a forgiveness to get it.
However...
These activities,
Go nowhere to disappear.
Gone to be forever forgotten.
Since somewhere staying in one's mind,
A repetition of such acts...
Loosens from a storage.
Where they had in the mind,
Had been attached.
And out from one's mouth they come.
As if a cleaning is being done.
Removing unnecessary,
An excessive storage of useless B.S.
"You said you had forgiven me.
Of those misdeeds I confessed to do.'
'I did.
Many times as I remember.
That to do you should remember too!'
'Then maybe you do or don't,
Understand...
My capacity for B. S. has reached,
Beyond it's limits.
And no room in my mind,
Do I have for more of your nonsense.
I'm done.
I'm through.
Again I forgive you.
However, that's it.
I have had enough of your...'
'You don't have to say it.'
'Good!
Now go.'
'AWAY!
Geeessshhh!
Scheme | ABXCX XDXXXXXDA DEBFGDEFXXXH IGXBAXXAXXBDC DJ XIJ XXXXAXBJJHX H XX XC |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (33%) Etheree (28%) |
Metre | 01 1111111 011001000100 1001010 1101111 11011101 11010100 01111 11101 1011111 1011 11111 11100 0101 110110100 010010101 010001111 11101 1101010100 11101 0100101011 1001 110101 1001001 1101 101010010111 10 10100 11101 111010010 1110011 0010111 101010 111001 1101 0111111 110101101 0100100 1010101101 11110101 110110111 11 10111010 111110101 1101111 01 1010011111 01110 011011 111111110 11 11 011011 1011 1110111 111111 1 11 01 1 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,489 |
Words | 277 |
Sentences | 50 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 9, 12, 13, 2, 3, 11, 1, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 60 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 117 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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