Analysis of As It Is To Give
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
To be as one is to give to gift another,
Getting to get.
Will be a gift to value and remembered,
More to treasure as priceless.
That increases to keep,
The worth of what was given to received...
Kept to know,
There is nothing else that can come close...
To one giving who they are to be.
Without this to doubt or suspect,
Them of wearing of a mask to remove.
Revealing one day,
Someone else unknown.
Showing a butt told to kiss.
To wish too late,
What was exposed and how it was done...
Could be that nasty to miss.
'I can't believe all this time,
You had me that fooled and tricked!'
'I warned you,
There was another side of me.'
'You did.
But gee!
Where was I,
To have missed the smell of your mess?'
'Deluded?
Deluded by what?'
'Deluded by a packaged wrapped.
That I told you time and time again,
If you keep refusing the contents...
Too examine closely.
One day,
Even the cover to fantasize what's inside...
Will disappoint.
To find the truth of it disgusting.'
'I thought you were talking about a book,
I wanted to buy long ago.'
'Same thing.
And still,
What did you do?
Went ahead and ignored,
Everything I said!'
'The mind and time changes!'
'That's the first time we agreed,
On anything.
However...
That change done to come.
For some? Yes.
For others?
Not that much!
Scheme | AXXXXXBXCXXDXEXXE XX FC GCXH GX XXXCDXXI XB IXFXX X XIAXHXX |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (42%) Etheree (28%) |
Metre | 111111111010 1011 11011100010 1110110 101011 0111110101 111 111011111 111011111 01111101 1110101101 01011 1101 1001111 1111 110101111 1111011 1101111 1111101 111 11010111 11 11 111 11101111 010 01011 01010101 111110101 111010010 101010 11 10010110101 101 110111010 1110100101 11011101 11 01 1111 101001 1011 010110 1011101 110 10 11111 111 110 111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,235 |
Words | 248 |
Sentences | 36 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 17, 2, 2, 4, 2, 8, 2, 5, 1, 7 |
Lines Amount | 50 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 95 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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