Analysis of Pungent
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Sssss...ahhhh.
So pungent is the aroma.
And the ongoing smell,
Of the distrusted, crusting...
Oven roasted corrupted toasted fraud.
Making words to waste them,
To describe...
How long it must have taken to prepare,
The perfect ingredients...
Found to find to whipped together,
Such a blend of deception.
Hidden to hide behind backs disguised.
And too difficult it is,
To criticize, fault and blame...
Everyone crooked cooking up,
This delicious and tasteful pot of lies.
Since...
It has to be admitted,
Not too many could refuse...
Walking away,
From conflicts and divisions created.
To accept a participating,
Would ultimately achieve for themselves...
The recipe to have them too believe,
A power to obtain it...
Can and could,
Leave a stench too irresistible.
Few would be left not to know,
From where the B.S. made to create...
Came overwhelmingly to flow.
'Are you back here, again!?'
'Heavens, yes!
My only request is to lick the pot!'
'You want that pot hot?
Or...
Await until it cools?'
'Are you kidding?
I want that stuff as hot as you've got it!'
'What about that tongue of yours?
This stuff will just make it,
That much more acidic and disgusting!'
'I know.
And I remember the days,
When I had been...
Suspected to be a nonconformist.
You know...
The 'them' of 'they' to go back,
From where you came from people!'
'Well...
Times are rapidly changing.
You stay patient and wait right there.
We are still serving a long line,
Of conservatives.
Claiming to have liberal appetites.'
'Say what?
And since when?'
'You didn't hear this from me, but...
Those folks are 'swingers'.'
'What do you mean by that?'
'During the day,
Their noses are stuck up in the air.
But at night?
Those same noses,
Are sniffing around for some diversity.
If you catch my drift?'
'Oh, that?
I've known that all my life.
Although...
Never have I seen them in daylight.
Getting a taste of what they've created.
Pretending its power they want to get.
By attempting to devour the taste of it.
To not admit,
Who they rely upon to clean up their mess.
Done to accuse us of being the culprits.'
'Everything must change.'
'Nothing stays the same.
I was told many years ago,
Appreciate what you've got.
Or that bite to return,
Will come to burn your butt alot.'
'Hmmm.
That depends,
On whose swinger's butt...
Is in that sling!'
'I digress.
Hold on.
Don't go anywhere!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1 11010010 00101 100101 1010010101 101111 101 1111110101 0010100 11111010 1011010 101101101 0110011 110101 1010101 1010010111 1 1111010 1110101 1001 1010010010 10100100 1100001101 0100111101 0101011 101 10110100 1111111 11011101 1010011 111101 101 1100111101 11111 1 010111 1110 1111111111 1011111 111111 1110100010 11 0101001 1111 010110010 11 0111111 1111110 1 1110010 11100111 11110011 10100 101110010 11 011 11011111 11110 111111 1001 110111001 111 1110 11001110100 11111 11 111111 1 10111101 1001111010 0101101111 101010100111 1101 11010111111 11011110010 1011 10101 11110101 010111 111101 11111101 1 101 1111 1011 101 11 1110 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 2,262 |
Words | 427 |
Sentences | 70 |
Stanzas | 18 |
Stanza Lengths | 12, 18, 1, 2, 3, 2, 3, 7, 6, 2, 2, 1, 6, 10, 1, 5, 4, 3 |
Lines Amount | 88 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 98 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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