Analysis of Image Driven

Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)



What then will happen,
When those known to be competent.
And ignorance free.
Coming each and everyday to assist,
The teaching of others...
To use their minds to become wise.
Knowledgeable.
And noticeably,
Intelligent to enable them to succeed.
In a World becoming more deceiving.

So many today,
Prefer the freedom and ease of being...
Image conscious.
With looks to impress.
Feeling threatened their images to value,
Openly displayed.
Will leave no one left to idolize,
Them to worship in decadent ways.
Or found no longer to recognize,
Those symbols are relatable.
And close to declare them ancestors.
Of religious and spiritual deities.

Although mythed.
And historically distant from reality.
Yet...
Taught to teach and accept to believe.

What then will happen to truth and reality?
And proof and evidence,
Of their existence.
Once to roam the World over.

But today?
Left struggling to survive,
In a climate changing.
With a polluting of lies,
Diseasing many and a way of fading life.
Inflicted with intention by the ones,
Image driven.
Boosted to seduce...
Thoughts of power.
And maintained to sustain,
Visions of immortality!


Scheme ABCXDEFCXG HGXXXXEXEFDX BCXX CIIJ HXGEXXAXJXC
Poetic Form
Metre 11110 11111100 01001 1010101101 010110 11111011 1000 01000 010010101101 0010101010 11001 0101001110 1010 11101 10101100110 10001 11111110 111001001 11110110 11011 01101110 101001000100 11 00100010110 1 111001101 1111011010 010100 11010 1110110 101 1100101 001010 1001011 1100011101 0101010101 1010 10101 1110 001101 1010100
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,091
Words 183
Sentences 29
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 10, 12, 4, 4, 11
Lines Amount 41
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 180
Words per stanza (avg) 37
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Submitted by lpahtillah on September 17, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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