Analysis of Spectacle
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Achieving to accomplish anything rare.
And considered spectacular.
Can motivate and inspire those who seek,
Something unique and unexpected.
That reaches beyond repeated routines.
Then it happens.
Heightening expectations.
With a demanding of more of it to see.
No longer remaining appreciated.
Squeezing from it the humanity.
Leaving what had been once done to do,
A spectacle.
A side show.
As if part of a circus act.
Or a lion's den to be sent in to perform.
Until the people observing are heard,
Screaming for the blood of the one...
Who becomes nothing more,
Than a martyr.
A sacrificial lamb.
People await to publicly see slaughtered!
And...
The one who recognizes this to prevent,
Becomes even more admired.
Disappointing...
Those with a heightened urge,
Craving blood to taste.
To victimize and not appreciate humanity!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101010101 00100100 110001111 10010010 1100101001 1110 100010 10010111111 1100100100 101100100 101111111 0100 011 11110101 101011110101 0101001011 10101101 101101 1010 00101 10011100110 0 0111001101 01101010 010 110101 10111 1100010100100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 800 |
Words | 134 |
Sentences | 22 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 21, 7 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 330 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 67 |
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