Analysis of Way Off Track Factless
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
A challenge to debate,
Anyone known to be born...
Taught to delude truth and reality.
Seems an impossible task,
To accept and believe it conquered.
Even the challenge to face someone,
Way off track and a life lived factless.
Is enough to be qualified,
To be a candidate for a padded cell.
This without it hesitated to contemplate,
Should not approach consideration.
Since many who deceive and lie,
Premeditate the doing of it.
Knowing the difference a decision makes.
However...
Those born and raised to delude truth,
Will never be convinced...
Their fictionalized lives taught to live.
Are fictionalized lies to them told to tell.
And fictional lives lived to live them well,
Do come to an end.
With no one witnessed,
Happily rushing towards the horizon.
To greet the rising Sun.
And not a violin heard to play.
As the sound of morning birds...
Begin chirping in perfect harmony,
SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW.
As Judy Garland interrupts to ask,
If 'Little Women' is being filmed nearby?
This...
For those way off track and living factless.
Would not be noticed,
To be a creation....
Purposely to distort reality.
And they would argue about it being seen!
'But seeing something doesn't mean,
It isn't...'
'No...
You forget it.
Remember...
I'm the one,
Having DELUSIONS!
Remember...
I'm the one,
Off track.
Factless.
Seeing things my eyes lie to see!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010101 101111 11011010 1101001 101001110 10010111 11100111 1011110 11010010101 1011100110 11010010 11010101 01001011 10010000101 10 11011011 110101 11001111 1100111111 0100111111 11111 11110 10010010010 110101 010001111 1011101 0110001100 11001 110100111 11010110111 1 111110101 11110 110010 10010110 01110011101 11010101 110 1 1011 010 101 10010 010 101 11 1 10111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,330 |
Words | 234 |
Sentences | 36 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 6, 19, 6, 2, 10 |
Lines Amount | 48 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 174 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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