Analysis of Conventional

Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)



A following of traditional customs.
Valued to treasure them.
And used as a measure,
To please and pleasure...
A repetitious existence.
Wishing to keep it as is to live.
One can only imagine,
How frustrating this attempt had been...
For dinosaurs.
Gone.
And nolonger amongst us.

Convenient and steady,
Old and rusting outdated habits.
Relying on divisions still to implement.
From a past quickly shedding away.
To reveal a future blooming,
Nothing can delay.
These are the times we all should pray.
For the many still with visions,
Of resuscitation breathless horses...
Long beatened to death.
And left fossilized.

Yes!
We should and must pray.
For the ones hoping to restore,
Their missed and joyful yesterdays.
More today embellished to exaggerate,
Than at any time before.
When ethnic diversity,
No one now can not ignore.

Although when asked,
About the rise of conflicts.
Division.
Bigotry and racism.
Those defending their ways become upset.
To say,
What they do is not about race.
But a past from them they want to stay.
And object to it being erased.
To be replaced by a future.
Fading away the image of their faces.

'Uh...
Do you mind repeating,
Your objection to the future?'

'Not at all.
Our image is being replaced.
By ethnicity.
And the many faces of this...
Cruel process.'

'And...
Just what is that image of yours,
Threatening to be replaced and erased?'

'Look at me!

'Oookkkay. I'm looking!'

'And tell me quickly what do you see?'

'Someone who is making me feel,
Extremely uneasy!'

'I am not talking about that.
I represent power.
I reek of it.
It can not be resisted.
I have been chosen to spread it!'

'May I ask you a question?'

'In what other noticeable ways,
Have you chosen to prove...this...
Superiority over others,
You feel you have?
And...
Have gone out to do something about it?'

'Only when my attention needed to have,
Is not returned to have me noticed.'

'Well...
Congratulations!'

'For what and why?'

'Trust me.
The power you have to get attention,
And noticed for the way...
This is achieved?
Is noticeable.
And any doubt you may have?
You must not watch TV that often.
Or not at all.'

'Wow.
And how did you know that?'

'Just a...
C.R. T. moment I am having.'

'I once had the same thing.
Then I found this incredible diet.
Now I sleep through the night.
Before?
At least twice every night,
There I was in the bathroom.'

'Being noticed too I bet, huh?'

'Wow.
I don't believe this.
Are you psychic?
You know...
A mind reader?'

'Not at all.
Just observant.


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Poetic Form Tetractys  (41%)
Etheree  (26%)
Metre 01001010010 101101 011010 11010 0010010 101111111 1110010 11010111 110 1 01011 010010 10101010 010101011100 101101001 10101010 10101 11011111 10101110 100101010 1111 0110 1 11011 10110101 1101010 1010101010 1110101 1100100 1111101 111 0101101 010 100010 1010110101 11 11111011 101111111 010111001 1111010 10010101110 1 111010 10101010 111 10101101 10100 00101011 101 0 11111011 100111001 111 1110 011101111 1111011 010010 11110011 10110 1111 1111010 11110111 1111010 011010001 111011 001001010 1111 0 1111110011 10110101011 110111110 1 0010 1101 11 0101111010 010101 1101 11000 0101111 111111110 1111 1 011111 10 11101110 111011 1111010010 111101 01 1111001 111001 10101111 1 11011 1110 11 0110 111 1010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 2,390
Words 458
Sentences 88
Stanzas 24
Stanza Lengths 11, 11, 8, 11, 3, 5, 3, 1, 1, 1, 2, 5, 1, 6, 2, 2, 1, 8, 2, 2, 6, 1, 5, 2
Lines Amount 100
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 78
Words per stanza (avg) 18
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Submitted by lpahtillah on July 20, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

2:12 min read
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