Analysis of Broken Toys
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Whose responsibility is it.
If people themselves are parents,
Raising children.
Lacking in respect and discipline.
Incapable to listen.
Or obey to make it their priority,
To pay undivided attention given.
Whose responsibility is that?
Whose accountable for actions taken,
To accept and dismiss...
Every excuse there is.
While tolerating a patience,
That accuses teachers, preachers.
And others on a list to blame,
Claiming them not to be the leaders...
In communities where they live?
And these are the leaders,
Selected and picked.
To have not one,
Qualified or licensed to be a psychiatrist.
Although have told them repeatedly,
Time again...
'The home is where many mistakes made,
Go ignored that should be corrected.
And no one should expect,
Outsiders to arrive...
To supply and apply,
Glue to fix broken toys.
With a teaching to break them.
Then to ignore tantrums allowed!'
'I know you are not to us saying,
Our way to raise our children...
Could be better done?
How rude and appalling!'
'No!
What we have said,
Time and time again...
If you permit a doing to continue,
Neither one of us is a warden.
Nor...
Have patience enough to sit,
Listening to any of you...
Claiming everything you did to do,
To buy and pay for toys...
Your children, now grown,
Never shown an appreciation...
For what you then did!'
'So...
What do you expect us to do now?!'
'Be adults.
And accept,
Those playgrounds have long gone.
With a doing the best you can,
To explain that to your 'children'.
Sitting behind bars.
Wherever that prison is.
Built at the taxpayers' expense!'
'What?
We object to your judgmental sentiments.
They are nolonger called prisons.
Today?
They are referred to as being,
Rehabilitation centers.
Get your facts straight.
Before you attempt to make,
Such offensive assessments!'
'You are right!
Denial to abuse,
Is a disgraceful truth of a tool to use.
In the face of those,
Clinging onto their delusions.
Isn't it?'
'Don't try to change the subject.
Who do you think we are?
Children who raised children,
To stay that way?
Or irresponsible adults to pretend,
We can imitate them.'
'Good question.
But that answer to get,
Would require time no one has.
Or be paid enough,
For the patience it takes!
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Metre | 10010011 11001110 1010 100010100 0100110 10111110100 1101001010 10010011 1010011010 101001 1000111 1100010 10101010 01010111 101111010 00100111 011010 01001 1111 101101100100 11110100 101 011110011 101111010 011101 010101 101001 111101 1010111 11011001 111111110 101111010 11101 110010 1 1111 10101 11010101010 101111010 1 1100111 10011011 10101111 110111 11011 10110010 11111 1 111011111 101 001 11111 10100111 10111110 10011 0101101 1101001 1 11011010100 111110 01 11011110 001010 1111 0110111 1010010 111 010101 10010110111 00111 10101010 101 1111001 111111 101110 1111 10010001101 11101 110 111011 1101111 11101 101011 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 2,123 |
Words | 384 |
Sentences | 56 |
Stanzas | 12 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 6, 8, 4, 13, 2, 8, 9, 6, 6, 5 |
Lines Amount | 83 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 142 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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