Analysis of Work Done

Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)



Get that homework done.
And be pro-active with a preparing,
Scenarios to rehearse and practice.
Both inside, near and around the house.
Or wherever it is,
That keeps you observant about it.

Don't fear to be thought a fool.
To test and be tested.
Or say purposely to choose,
Words to say others may ridicule.
Be honest without,
Having premeditated druthers.
Done to later discover,
Opinions of those others...
Find you and what you do a joke.
Know to stay and pay attention.
Since everything inside and outside,
Applies...
To lessons learned to your homework.
Found to do and in life to find,
Your mind with time to use...
And not waste.
Creates understanding made understood,
Only fools accept to believe...
Curiosity kills the cat.
But unlike cats,
Rumored to have nine lives.
We live to have one.
And those who spread rumors,
Seem to remain living...
Without being curious,
As to why they kill themselves,
With a listening to others.
Knowing nothing about who they are.
Yet will recommend and suggest,
What they should do to live a better life!

'Why do folks,
Continue to digest stuff like that?'

'Stuff like what?'

'Feed on nonsense?
Than blame and accuse someone else.
For what they've done to themselves.'

'Who knows.
Perhaps they have been made addicted,
On the belief...
They are owed to have someone else,
To do their homework for them!'

'Ain't that the truth.
Have you been inside,
Some of these homes?'

'No.
I don't need to do that.
It's enough for me,
To stay on the outside looking in.
Leaving my imagination,
Unnecessary to work overtime!


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Poetic Form
Metre 1111 0111010010 0100101010 101100101 101011 111010011 1111101 110110 1110011 11110110 11001 10010010 1110010 0101110 11011101 11101010 11001011 01 1101111 11100111 111111 011 01010101 10101101 0100101 1011 101111 11111 011110 110110 0110100 1111101 10100110 101001111 1101001 1111110101 111 010101111 111 1110 1100111 1111101 11 011111010 1001 1111111 111111 1101 11101 1111 1 111111 10111 111011100 1010010 01001110
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 1,496
Words 274
Sentences 37
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 6, 30, 2, 1, 3, 5, 3, 6
Lines Amount 56
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 150
Words per stanza (avg) 34
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Submitted by lpahtillah on September 06, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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