Analysis of Not Easy To Bend
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
A maverick change maker.
And not quick or easy to bend.
Fixed,
I am told to be.
I pick and choose what it is I like.
I can not be given anything.
I neither can use nor want to keep.
Without it being asked,
What it is I need.
No one can give me anything.
To expect it I will not refuse.
I do have options.
I know I can pick from and choose.
Living to pick,
From my own list of options.
Did not happen overnight.
Time it took,
For me to become aware...
What was right to live my life.
And...
No one else is going to add,
On my list of options...
What it is they wish,
For me to choose and pick.
Since my door to open wide and quick,
I will do to be done.
Without a thought about it.
'You are not easy to bend.'
'Why should I live my life,
Competing with others.
In a contest to see,
Who has the ability to win?
The choices I make,
Are my own to begin.
Until I determine,
When they change to end.
And...
Here.
See for yourself.
Nowhere on my list of wants and wishes,
Do you appear as an option to pick!'
'That's not a very nice thing to say!'
'I agree.
I chose not to go with my first choice.'
'To slowly walk to that door.
Open it.
Then give you a warm loving hug.
Before I asked you to leave.
Then slammed the door behind you,
As hard and loud as I could.
But I thought that message to send,
You would misunderstand the reason for it!'
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0100110 01111011 1 11111 110111111 11111010 110111111 011101 11111 1111110 101111101 11110 11111101 1011 1111110 1110101 111 1110101 1111111 0 11111011 111110 11111 111101 111110101 111111 0101011 1111011 111111 010110 001011 110010011 01011 111101 011010 11111 0 1 1101 111111010 1101111011 110101111 101 111111111 1101111 101 11101101 0111111 1101011 1101111 11111011 1100101011 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,361 |
Words | 344 |
Sentences | 40 |
Stanzas | 13 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 1, 4, 4, 6, 5, 3, 1, 8, 5, 1, 2, 8 |
Lines Amount | 52 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 76 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Written on June 17, 2022
Submitted by lpahtillah on June 17, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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