Analysis of Kids
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
We call and refer to today's children,
As just kids.
Protecting to defend,
What they intend to do.
And make excuses for what they did.
Perceiving them innocent.
Of being influenced,
By a truth we refuse to accept...
To believe is the cause and reason,
Their minds to use...
Are not their own to abuse and amuse,
Those deluded and limited to fiction...
A way of life,
Purposely functioning on fantasies.
Fed to feed tall stories to tell and sell.
Sold and bought to isolate ourselves,
From the painful effects of reality.
We call and refer to today's children,
As kids.
Doing what their parents did.
With a doing to ignore and accept,
Having no discipline or respect for others.
And remaining irresponsible to neglect,
A growing up...
Without being made accountable,
For our actions...
Has its consequences to pay.
And blaming to accuse,
Others for that which we intend to do...
Ultimately leaves,
A society sickened with a seeking to find...
Something,
Anything that cures and heals...
What has been condoned.
But this to own and self examine,
Still will leave...
Many sold and told to believe,
It is not the truth...
We are incapable to accept.
It is the image of a way of life,
That has become more diversified.
And representing a democracy...
Flawed by too much,
Exposure to ethnicity!
'That explanation makes no sense at all.
Where on Earth do you get,
Such nonsense to assess...
A way of life,
We have sold to sell...
As being envied and jealously successful.'
'Observation.
And refusing to continue,
To accept and deny...
It is not my eyes,
That to me lie.'
'So what are you attempting to say?
Most of us have been groomed,
To lie to ourselves?
With a doing to refuse and deny the truth?
For what it is to ignore?'
'Well...
Seeing is believing.
However...
Many kids today,
Who have grown up...
Imitating the ways of adults.
Have been taught to stay children.
And nothing else to expect from them!'
'Oh yeah?
Well...
My children were raised,
The same way I had been.'
'You get no argument to start with me!
Like I said,
I am an observer.
And my eyes refuse,
To be of service to those...
Who lie to themselves and others.'
'How rude, sarcastic and cynical.'
'You left out one despicable thing,
You have not called me.'
'Oh yeah?
And what would that be?'
'That too!
I'm willing to bet,
You are the life of any party.'
'I don't get many invitations.'
'I'm shocked. You're kidding?'
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1100110110 111 010101 110111 010101111 0101100 110100 101101101 101101010 1111 1111101001 10100100110 0111 1001001100 1111101101 101110001 101001110 1100110110 11 1011101 1010101001 101100101110 001000100101 0101 011010100 11010 1110011 010101 1011110111 10001 0010010101011 10 101101 11101 111101010 111 10101101 11101 110100101 1101010111 11011010 001000100 1111 01010100 101011111 111111 110101 0111 11111 110100100010 010 00101010 101001 11111 1111 111101011 111111 111001 101010100101 1111101 1 101010 10 10101 1111 10001101 1111110 010110111 11 1 11001 011111 1111001111 111 111010 01101 1111011 11101010 110100100 111101001 11111 11 01111 11 11011 110111010 11110010 11110 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 2,429 |
Words | 537 |
Sentences | 62 |
Stanzas | 14 |
Stanza Lengths | 17, 27, 6, 5, 5, 8, 4, 6, 1, 2, 2, 3, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 88 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 129 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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