Analysis of Through A Pile Of It
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
When we are not sure,
Of our next steps to take.
Or where we should place them.
Why does it seem,
We accuse, blame and follow...
The ones with their noses up.
Not to smell nor attempt to maneuver,
Around a pile of horse manure.
To then say,
Ultimately the experience will leave...
Something to think about to remember.
That will remain beneficial.
If and when time given permits,
Those bored of conversations...
Discussing how politics,
Came to stink up everybody's lives.
With a doing of it done religiously.
And...
Without a horse around to accuse.
To have beaten,
Many of them to death.
Incredibly incapable to be resuscitated.
By the ones demanding them to relive,
The same repeated nonsense.
Over and over.
As if family heirlooms handed down,
From one generation to the next.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111 1101111 111111 1111 1011010 0111101 1111011010 01011101 111 10000010011 1011011010 1101010 10111001 111010 010110 11111001 10101110100 0 010101101 1110 101111 01000100110100 1010101101 0101010 10010 111001101 11010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 754 |
Words | 135 |
Sentences | 18 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 4, 15 |
Lines Amount | 27 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 203 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 45 |
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