Analysis of Convinced
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
So many of us,
Have been made convinced.
What we take to steal from others,
Is ours to declare owned.
From innovations created,
To scriptures lifted out of a Bible.
Re-interpreted to quote,
A meaning meant to depict...
The meaning of theft.
That becomes a stripping away,
Of natural resources from one place...
To another.
With this done to have believed,
A doing done was to feed and nourish...
The ones from which,
Such resources...
Were lifted from the ground.
And from where they sat.
To then be told by thieves,
Diamonds, gold, platinum, titanium...
Silver, oil, copper, ore and coal.
Could never feed them like the fruits,
That deceiving thieves produced.
By a sweating to manufacture,
Schemes that hoodwinked to dupe.
And sold as told by smiling crooks.
With perfect implanted newly bought,
Teeth!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011 11101 11111110 1101011 1010010 1101011010 1010011 0101101 01011 10101001 1100100111 1010 1111101 0101111010 0111 1100 010101 01111 111111 101100100 10110101 11011101 1010101 10101010 11111 01111101 101010101 1 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 805 |
Words | 163 |
Sentences | 18 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 28 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 625 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 135 |
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