Analysis of Which Way Is Up

Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)



This place we live known to us as Earth.
Both spins and rotates,
Around a massive fixed Sun.
We have been made to believe,
Rises at dawn.
Some say to witness at the East.
To begin a setting,
At the West to come.

Limitless is the Universe.
With countless of other Suns.
We are taught to teach,
Are stars above to wish upon...
When they are seen to fall.
Yet...
No scientist has proven to admit,
This Earth we live to inhabit it sits...
In the middle of it all.

'Which way is up?
To keep our heads uplifted?
And why do many say,
With it to leave wondered...
That a looking down,
Is a negative way to keep our focus?
When everything that nourishes us,
Does come from the ground.
And...
Around us all to be found.
With the only thing up to see,
Are many up to doing...
More of their misdeeds.
With this they do to have disbelieved?
Trying to convince,
Humanity is a man-made experiment!'

'Can you see,
The air and trees...
Doing their 'thing' to allow us to breathe?'

'And why?
You might ask yourself?'

'I've never asked myself that.'

'And why?
That...
I will ask for you.
Well...
It is only our Creator can do that.
And mysteriously.'

'Oh.
So those who claim faith,
To have in our Creator.
Are not hypocrites at all.
When they or anyone plant misdeeds?
Fed to feed a fiction to delude?
While they harvest corruption and theft.
To exclusively feast upon that themselves.
Their one main objective.
Is to make people feel down.
With this done to keep,
Them from looking up and around...
For the truth and reality,
Of our existence!'

'Uh...hmmm...ahhh...er...ooo...ummm.
I don't know,
Exactly...
Where you are going with this.
Or if I should begin to play,
Hide and seek to be found.
Or just go along.
Until Simon runs out of stuff to follow.
But I refuse to leave,
My political affiliation...
A way for you,
To then discredit my religious beliefs!
Understand?'

'You folks are always trying your best,
To confuse those of us...
Who are certified and long lasting,
On the right siders of life to live it people.
With something more sinister.
Than maintaining our standards to value.
My thought process,
And I love to admit this.
My thought process,
Has always been happily...
Straight and narrow minded.'

'That has nothing to do,
With your tunneled vision.
All I asked was a simple question.
Which way is up?
And that was all.
Hello and goodbye.
Geeessshhh.'

'Oh.
Forgive me.
I apologize.
I misunderstood.
So...
You are asking me,
Wassup?
I got it.
I have not heard it said that way before.
Which way is up with you?
You know...
With all of us these days?
It's all about the weather,
And climate change.'

'I won't.
I can't believe this.'

'Do.
You better.
Trust me.
It's real!'

'Life to live it.
Doesn't get any clearer.
To make more sense of it.
One thing thought to believe meant.
Is quickly taken out of context.'

'Tell me about it.
There's always something that confuses,
Our minds.
That introduces to abuse...
Our understanding of each other.
With it done intentionally too!
It just seems that way.
It just seems people go out of their way,
Purposely.
Without thinking or using common sense.'

'Yeah...
That I do believe.'

'Should I say,
My bruh?'

'Yeah.
Which way is up, my bruh?
You be cool and stay chilled.'

'I wish I could find the right words.'

'Backatcha!
Even I know that one.'


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Poetic Form Tetractys  (35%)
Metre 111111111 1101 0101011 1111101 1011 11110101 101010 10111 1001010 1101101 11111 11011101 111111 1 1100110101 1111101011 0010111 1111 11101100 011101 111110 10101 101001111010 11011001 11101 0 0111111 10101111 1101110 11101 1111111 10101 010010110100 111 0101 1011101111 01 11101 110111 01 1 11111 1 111010010111 01000 1 11111 11010010 111011 11110101 111010101 111001001 10100101101 111010 1111011 11111 11101001 101010 110010 1 111 010 1111011 11110111 101111 11101 01101111110 110111 101000010 0111 11010101001 01 11111011 101111 11100110 101101111110 1101100 10101010110 111 0111011 111 111100 101010 111011 11110 111101010 1111 0111 0101 1 1 011 1010 1001 1 11101 1 111 1111111101 111111 11 111111 1101010 0101 11 11011 1 110 11 11 1111 1011010 111111 1111011 110101110 11011 11101010 101 1010101 100101110 111010001 11111 1111011111 100 0110110101 1 11101 111 11 1 111111 111011 11111011 1 101111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 3,368
Words 780
Sentences 120
Stanzas 21
Stanza Lengths 8, 9, 16, 3, 2, 1, 6, 14, 13, 11, 7, 14, 2, 4, 5, 10, 2, 2, 3, 1, 2
Lines Amount 135
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 117
Words per stanza (avg) 28
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Submitted by lpahtillah on January 20, 2022

Modified by lpahtillah on January 21, 2022

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