Analysis of Be It Known To Know
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Life to live it as is.
With various unexpected experiences.
Is a doing the very few,
Can and will admit...
Of being prepared to anticipate,
What direction to take.
When facing obstacles to challenge,
Every step we make,
Saves us from creating our own mistakes.
This to be known to know,
And proven shown...
Does not eliminate,
Something else new to learn that fascinates.
Growing older with beliefs,
To know all there is.
About what comes to be done.
From a distance to either observe or witness,
Seldom leaves anyone aging to claim...
Their experiences to have lived them,
Bestows more of a wisdom to explain...
What it is others should do.
If they should choose another direction.
In the hope this advice,
Frees them from facing their own sacrifices.
Be it known to know,
There is no blueprint that guarantees...
A beginning, middle and end,
Can anyone live to survive...
Without tasting some grief and agony.
Done made to believe,
A scheduling to avoid...
The bitter for the sweet,
Is not a realistic view.
Especially if a concrete bowl to hold cherries,
Has pits in the cherries and that bowl...
Begins to crack.
'Uh...
What kind of positive analogy is that?'
Whether positive or not,
Truth is truth and facts are facts.
And besides...
What experiences have you had,
Being the age of 75?
'None!
I have yet to have done that before.'
Neither have I.
But this I do know to be known...
All plans I had for my own future to live?
More disappointed I became,
When I realized my life to live...
It was me that had to change.
And repeatedly update,
My beliefs to accomodate...
A way of life I lived isolated.
To adjust, adapt and accept,
Any blueprint I made to anticipate...
How I would live with it done to do,
Left me attempting...
To keep up with appearances.
And those impressions to make them,
Today?
No longer exist.
'So...
What are you saying?'
Your happiness should not depend,
On decisions others make for themselves.
Do you and be it known to know,
Advice to give or get from anyone...
Will not stay to remain that way.
And aging to listen more,
Prevents arguing over nonsense.
Just nod in agreement and move on.
'But...
What does the doing of that prove?'
Peace of mind and happiness to keep it,
Has more benefits to be known to know...
What is more valued to prioritize.
'That makes no sense at all.'
Trust me.
At the age of 75?
I have earn to learn to care less,
About making my life to live it...
An attempt to convince anyone,
Of sense to make of my own experiences.
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 2,492 |
Words | 545 |
Sentences | 56 |
Stanzas | 13 |
Stanza Lengths | 13, 11, 12, 2, 5, 2, 17, 2, 8, 2, 3, 1, 6 |
Lines Amount | 84 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 146 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Written on May 05, 2022
Submitted by lpahtillah on May 05, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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