Analysis of When?
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
When?
Who has it to have,
That kind of consciousness to know...
The when and why,
People decide what to do...
To like or dislike.
For reasons to give or not to others,
An explanation without expecting to be...
Scrutinized or interrogated.
To then change their minds.
As a personal decision.
Not to try to deny or disguise a choice made.
Are those charading an image,
To masquerade...
A power they fear,
Will lose an attempt to have many afraid...
To display their ethnicity.
And diversity to parade?
Or the fact the loss,
Of themselves nolonger idolized...
As immortal heros to adore?
Has status and prestige obtained to have it,
Drunkened their minds?
To accept and perceive themselves,
Warriors and heros to delude forevermore?
But...
There will come a time many will find,
Rules and laws to document...
How people should live.
How they should think and do that too.
Is the ultimate wish,
People dream to have enforced...
Upon their experience of living life to get!
Since...
Isn't it only God,
The Creator...
Of a reality and truth of it to know exists.
Has yet created anything to remain,
As is to stay the way it is.
Changing to evolve.
Continuing to bloom into something new.
Regardless of rules, laws...
Moods, attitudes and refusal to accept,
That which God has chosen to create to do?
Will a 'When' that begins,
To become the ultimate experience...again.
Have those sitting in positions of authority,
Believing themselves anointed,
To interpret their version of visions...
Of who and what God is to imitate.
Awaken them to stop,
Deluding themselves to fiction and fake...
This place we call to be known as Earth.
Has been and still is,
A remarkable floating piece of dust.
And not a weapon to use.
Destroying all of us.
As ungrateful leeching creatures.
Determined to have themselves accepted,
As warriors controlling...
Over the entire Universe.
With an implementing a sad crazed madness.
Successfully marketed as profitable fiction.
Inviting real destruction and witnessed,
A promoting of self defeat.
For the money and fun of it!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1 11111 11110011 0101 101111 11101 1101111110 10100101011 1010100 11111 10100010 111101101011 111110 101 01011 11101111001 10110100 00100101 10101 101110 101010101 11000101111 111 10100101 1000101011 1 111011011 1011100 11011 11110111 101001 1011101 0110100110111 1 101101 0010 101001111101 1101010101 11110111 10101 01001101101 010111 1100010101 11111010111 101101 10101001 1110001010100 01001010 1010110110 110111110 010111 0100111001 111111111 11011 0010010111 0101011 010111 1010110 0101101010 1100010 10001010 1110001110 01001001100010 0101010010 00101101 10100111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 2,046 |
Words | 415 |
Sentences | 47 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 25, 8, 11, 13, 9 |
Lines Amount | 66 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 319 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 69 |
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Written on May 13, 2022
Submitted by lpahtillah on May 13, 2022
Modified by lpahtillah on May 13, 2022
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