Analysis of Once Upon A Time
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Once upon a time.
To vaguely remember,
What happened to occur...
Just a couple of hours ago.
Being petty had been the rage.
And everywhere this was fashionable.
Many were then heard to say,
The madness had of those yesterdays gone...
Could not continue on to last.
And certainly not the way it has.
Yet that madness thought,
One day will go away to fade.
As most fads eventually do.
Today we live a normalized craze.
Accepted and encouraged.
Proving...
Once upon a time,
People were proud...
To have their own minds to use.
But few these days,
Will publicly admit...
Being a misfit noncomformist.
And called a maverick too.
Or wishing to be depicted,
As those still among the living...
Reminiscing to remember.
Having an ability to think on their feet.
With a using of common sense.
Without fearing it done either privately.
Or heard in the streets to openly speak it,
Shared!
Scheme | Abbxxx xxcxxxdex fAxxegcdxfbxxxgx |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10101 110010 110101 101011001 10101101 010111000 1001111 010111101 11010111 010010111 11101 11110111 111010001 01110101 0100010 10 10101 1001 1111111 1111 110001 10011 0101001 11011010 11101010 0101010 101010011111 10101101 01101110100 11001110011 1 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 878 |
Words | 186 |
Sentences | 24 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 9, 16 |
Lines Amount | 31 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 227 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 51 |
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