Analysis of Replacing Reality
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Just how far will the many,
Opposing truth and the facts of reality go?
To deny their own existence.
With a resisting this permitted.
Until it creates heated debates.
Boiling over into a civil unrest!
'Hmmm...
I hope your question,
Is not directed to me.
I have enough on my mind as it is.'
And, if it is directed to you?
You must have an opinion.
'My life to live it,
Has been based upon fiction.
Halloween, Thanksgiving.
Christmas.
Easter bunnies and colored eggs.
And other celebrated holidays.
That every month I am kept awake,
Trying to remember...
Anniversaries and birthdays,
I might have missed.
Then on top of that...
Imitating pretensions to charade,
For the sake of making false impressions.'
I had not thought about that.
But then again...
Who would know,
We've been taught to lie?
And deceive each other?
'That's what I'm saying.
If I attempted to confess,
To anyone I know...
I woke up to realize,
We all have been living to lie.
And to ourselves too!
That would create,
Conflict, division, racism and havoc!'
You do have a point.
And who would want a life to live like that?
'Not me.
Things are just fine the way the are!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111010 01010011101 10111010 100101010 011011001 10100101001 1 11110 1101011 1101111111 011101011 1111010 11111 1110110 0110 10 10100101 01010010 1100111101 101010 010001 1111 11111 100010101 1011101010 1111011 1101 111 11111 001110 11110 11010101 11011 111110 11111011 010011 1101 1001010010 11101 0111011111 11 11110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,096 |
Words | 207 |
Sentences | 32 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 4, 2, 13, 5, 8, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 42 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 108 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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