Analysis of Everyone Knows
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Hindsight to have it.
Seems always there.
After and not before,
Acts of a mindlessness...
Are welcome to enter,
Through our wide opened doors.
As we beg too late to appreciate,
Advice to us given then to listen.
'Okay.
Again this same repeated message,
To you has been delivered.
Just because someone offers,
Delicious and sweet cherries to eat.
Prepare for the pits.
They may cause you to lose,
More than just a few of your teeth.
Metaphorically speaking.'
Everyone knows,
With the truth and the facts...
Of reality to them shows.
Uncovered toes,
Stepped upon by a blind hippopotamus.
Can be painful.
Yet...
There will still be those who remain,
Refusing to expose their agony and pain.
Today we live in sanity to smother times.
So many will be seen to witness,
Following along a telling of it told.
And made to believe what appears,
A road paved with gravel...
Layered under cemented concrete.
Is not what it is but actually gold.
Sold and made convinced of it.
Although warned...
A wearing of rose colored glasses,
Seldom scents crabgrass...
To smell like cookies.
Baked homemade.
And with grandma's molasses.
This admission could create havoc.
Those hypnotized and deceived by lies,
Will fight to the bitter end...
To defend a fictioned tale told to them.
And if that yellow appearing road,
Has at the end of it...
A pit of unforgiving quicksand?
Denial becomes the argument,
To begin heard to hear...
From those sinking in it!
And the ones who have experienced,
A surviving through their own ignorance.
Throw ropes, chains, tree branches...
And anything they can find.
To save those with deluded minds.
Yet told...
No one will take away their beliefs.
And they will stay where they are.
With fingers crossed behind their backs.
Since they know,
Truth and facts are not proof of evidence.
Until those who they follow,
Tell them it is.
'Uh...
You folks are in a pit of quicksand.
We are here,
Risking our lives to save yours.
Victims of tricks and lies you are.
Your fingers kept crossed,
Behind your backs is an act of stupidity.'
'You are just jealous and envious,
Of our way of life.'
'That belief you keep?
Will soon be gone to provide relief.'
'Oh yeah?
For who?'
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111 111 100101 1101 110110 1101101 111111010 0111101110 1 011101010 1111010 101110 010011011 01101 111111 11101111 010010 101 101001 110111 0101 1011010100 1110 1 11111101 010101110001 011101001101 110111110 10001010111 01101101 011110 101001001 1111111001 1010111 11 010111010 1011 11110 111 011010 101010110 11000111 1110101 101011111 011100101 110111 01100101 010010100 101111 111001 001110100 0010111100 111110 010111 11110101 11 111101101 0111111 11010111 111 1011111100 0111110 1111 1 11100111 111 10101111 10110111 11011 011111110100 111100100 110111 10111 111110101 11 11 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 2,181 |
Words | 465 |
Sentences | 56 |
Stanzas | 11 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 9, 9, 8, 7, 9, 13, 7, 2, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 76 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 153 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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