Analysis of Taking Understanding For Granted
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
One should never take for granted,
What is believed to understand...
To later realize,
What was thought to understand...
Taken out of context,
Misunderstood.
For example...
Remember when I told you,
What was done you did to be stupid?
'Yeah.
I remember that?'
And then you had an attitude,
When I called you...
One of the dumbest fools,
I had ever met?
'Yep.
I remember that too.'
What were you thinking,
Later that same week...
When I said repeatedly to you,
No imbecile or an idiot...
Would go out of their way,
To prove they were brainless...
Pathetic and a waste of breath to breathe?
'Well...
I know most people,
Have their own way to apologize.
So...
I accepted your apology.
To now realize,
You're no different than anyone else...
Wanting to hope,
How you feel about yourself...
Is forgiven.
And I do.
I forgive you.
Stop beating yourself up that way.
It's not healthy.
Not at all.
So...
What you did done to be stupid.
Pathetic and a waste of breath?
Look at it this way...
I understood to understand,
It wasn't me you were talking to or about.
I get it.
You were actually talking about yourself,
Right?'
No!
There you go.
Always misunderstanding what I say!
How I say it, when I say it and why.
'How?
How am I misunderstanding?
It was later that week it dawned on me.
To realize exactly,
Where you were coming from.
To come to me and apologize.
And you did.
I expected you would.
So...
What did I misunderstand?
Not to have understood?'
'That's what I have been trying to tell you.
FORGET IT!
I did.
Now...
You are trying to make a mountain,
Out of a molehill!
And for what reason?
Just to start an argument?
I'm not stupid like you.
What don't you understand you want me,
To make understood?!
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Metre | 11101110 1101101 11010 111101 101110 001 1010 0101111 111111110 1 10101 0111110 1111 110101 11101 1 101011 10110 10111 111010011 110011100 111111 111010 0100011111 1 11110 11111010 1 101010100 1110 111001101 1011 1110101 1010 011 1011 11001111 1110 111 1 11111110 01000111 11111 101101 110110101101 111 10100100101 1 1 111 10010111 1111111101 1 1110010 1110111111 110010 110101 11110010 011 101011 1 111001 11101 1111110111 011 11 1 111011010 1101 01110 1111100 111011 11101111 1101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,639 |
Words | 318 |
Sentences | 58 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 9, 2, 4, 2, 7, 24, 4, 11, 11 |
Lines Amount | 74 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 141 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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