Analysis of Hunger
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Without hunger to taste a craving,
To achieve more than mediocrity.
What point is there to make,
For dreams just to wish them...
One day to come true.
If the effort to endeavor is less,
Than the appetite one believes to accept...
Is not a mental process to daily digest,
Nonstop!
In a sacrificial commitment made,
24/7.
With this even to know to do,
Success to have it is not guaranteed.
'Then...
What is the point to stay hungry for it?'
'If one does what they love to do.
With a hunger to crave on a daily basis.
And divorce is not an option.
For someone who is addicted,
To a mistress like this they can not quit?
Pointless it will be for anyone to attempt,
Believing this kind of relationship...
They can ruin and end.
It is not going to happen!
A hunger like this,
Is a forever commitment.
Scheme | XXXXAXXXXXXAX XB AXCXBXXXCXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011011010 101110100 111111 111111 11111 1010101011 1010101101 11010111001 1 000100101 1 11101111 011111101 1 1101111011 11111111 101011101010 00111110 1111010 1010111111 10111110101 010111010 111001 11110110 01011 10010010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 770 |
Words | 151 |
Sentences | 17 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 13, 2, 11 |
Lines Amount | 26 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 202 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 50 |
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