Analysis of When Is It Too Late To Admit It
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
When is it too late to admit,
The doing of it has been said...
It is.
Repeatedly to hear it,
Time and time again.
To no longer have that heard.
With a making of sense to anyone,
Unconvinced?
Ignore their yelling,
Of what is going on around them.
Attempting to escape,
From a 'never too late'.
Only those who appreciate,
A paying attention to what time it is.
Without having any regret to listen,
To voices fading away in the distance.
With time that has become too late,
For a rescue that could have made...
A difference to then argue about,
How stubbornness has no benefit...
To one with a head thick as a brick wall!
Dining on crow and whining to find,
No one accepting their B.S.
'I admit,
There were times I have had my doubts.'
'And...
We admit these times to wish,
Your mouth can be shut to close...
With permanence!'
'How rude, disrespectful and thoughtless!'
'To which one of us with hands raised,
Offends what I've stated to you, more?
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111101 01011111 11 0100111 10101 1110111 101011110 01 01110 111101011 010101 101011 1011010 01001011111 01101001110 11010010010 11110111 10101111 0100111001 110011100 1110111011 101101011 1101011 101 10111111 0 1011111 1111111 1100 11010010 11111111 011110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 913 |
Words | 178 |
Sentences | 20 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 23, 2, 4, 1, 2 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 143 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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