Analysis of Peacefully Being Peaceful
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Loving to hate.
With this thought taught to teach.
A creating of conflict and havoc.
Has its benefits to reach successfully.
Done to endeavor,
This seeking sought tirelessly.
Believing,
Division has a reason...
Weapons are needed.
For victories to win them.
To witness peace to begin.
Where...
In the ever changing climate air,
Is the proof and evidence of this?
Peacefully being peaceful,
Takes a growing to know felt to feel.
And many people,
Living in these tumultuous days...
Thirsting for a taste,
To satisfy their taught selfish ways.
For a greed that pleases,
Others to imitate.
Will do anything,
By any means necessary to be accepted.
Regardless who calls it what to get,
Approval.
Suppressing to oppress,
Those powerless to defend themselves.
Has been fictioned to delude,
What power over others...
Means to have it to rule and control.
Yet...
Mindless,
And thoughtlessly unconscious.
Are the very ones with wishes kept,
That a crushing into pieces...
A peace identified wherever it is,
Witnessed to observe...
People doing this most of their lives.
Going unrecognized.
By deceivers feeding on fraud and lies.
Do unto themselves,
A smothering to snuff out...
Their own lives that could have been,
Lived peacefully.
Being peaceful.
Although...
This to teach it taught to believe,
Nowhere appears...
In textbooks, videos, movies.
Or on high definiton TV screens.
Focused to give images of heros,
Depicted...
As being warriors.
Strong and brave.
Saving the World.
From enemies such heros have created.
Historically!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011 111111 0010110010 11100110100 11010 1101100 010 0101010 10110 1100111 1101101 1 001010101 101010011 1001010 101011111 01010 10011001 1101 11011101 101110 10110 1110 110110011010 010111111 010 010101 110010101 111101 1101010 111111001 1 10 0110 101011101 10100110 0101001011 10101 101011111 10010 11101101 11001 0100111 1111111 1100 1010 1 11111101 101 0110010 1111111 1011100110 010 110100 101 1001 11001101010 01000 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,526 |
Words | 306 |
Sentences | 40 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 11, 3, 12, 5, 15, 12 |
Lines Amount | 58 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 199 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 41 |
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