Analysis of If Truth Can Not Be Faced
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
If no one can come to face truth as is.
With admitting our dilemmas,
And conflicts.
Have been our own creation.
How will they possibly be solved.
When time we spend,
Seeking others to end...
What we have done to ourselves.
To believe someone else,
Has a remedy to cure and mend...
That which we have done to delude.
And fictioned.
As an excuse to refuse,
The reality of what we continue to do...
To each other.
With lies to sell and tell them told!
Sold.
At our own expense.
If truth can not be faced?
And deception is everywhere.
High and low all over the place!
Who can we expect to correct,
A mess we have created to make.
To deny it with more lies to ourselves to tell.
Scheme | XXXXABBXXBXAXXXCCX XXXXXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111111111 101010010 001 11101010 11110011 1111 101011 11111001 10111 101001101 11111101 01 1101101 01011101011 1110 11110111 1 110101 111111 0010110 10111001 11101101 011101011 1011111100111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 674 |
Words | 154 |
Sentences | 19 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 18, 6 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 257 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 65 |
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Submitted by lpahtillah on April 12, 2022
Modified by lpahtillah on April 12, 2022
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