Analysis of Reckoning
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Assessing to appraise,
A direction one thinks is best to take.
Is not always achieved to accomplish,
The desired result.
To perceive as it should be.
Or even right to administer cautiously.
Before impulsively done.
To satisfy the pleasing of a need.
Thoughtlessly.
Few sit to evaluate the price to pay.
Then to themselves to ask,
What is it being reckoned with?
And if it would make a difference,
To think over how they became involved.
With it then to self examine,
After the action of reckoning taken.
As to whose thought process...
Had been used to borrow.
Without identifying the absent use,
Of common sense!
Scheme | XXXXAABXX XXXXXXBXXXX |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (30%) Etheree (25%) |
Metre | 010101 0010111111 111011010 001001 1011111 110110100100 0101001 110010101 1 1110100111 110111 11110101 011110100 1110110101 11111010 10010110010 11111 11111 0101000101 1101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 613 |
Words | 126 |
Sentences | 14 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 9, 11 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 243 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 53 |
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