Analysis of Oxymorons

Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)



Sharply dull.
With a brilliant ability,
To bore.
Making a napper snore.
Doing it done to take a bed mate,
Awakened from a deep sleep.
Pushed to limits of using a pillow.
For the purpose to smother...

'Uh...what are you doing with that pillow,
Above my head?
What time is it?'

'I just wanted you to sleep more comfortably.'

'How more comfortably?'

And yet,
These diverse and opposing...
Oxymorons.
Have been thoughtfully hoping with it wished,
To come together and correct...
The differences between them.
With a doing to keep,
Respect kept and enough distance left...
Shown to make known,
That even together...
Oxymorons can prove,
No loss in identity...
Do they expect or intend to experience.

'Baby?
I appreciate your desire to have me sleep,
Peacefully.
However...
With you standing on the floor over me,
Holding the pillow above your head.
Leaves me feeling suspicious,
Of your real intention.
Your look of both surprise and shock,
Leaves me wondering what I've got...
You want that much to take without,
Asking for it.'

'Honey?
If a tree should fall in the forest.
Would the noise upset,
Leaves on other trees wanting to get...
A night of peaceful sleep?
Or would they attempt to be proactive?
Without waiting for that tree to fall.
Not to know when it will happen.
And take it upon themselves,
To use an alternate and quiet method.'

'There are times your love to express it,
Comes close to taking my breath away.
So deep is your love.
You look tired.
As if you are in need of getting more sleep.
Come and lay down.
Let's get that needed rest together.'

'And...
The pillow?'

'Oh. That? Oh, yes.
How suspicious you must be to think,
My motives are not with love.'

'Well...
With your hands still above your head.
Squeezing that pillow?
It is kinda difficult for me to believe,
I caught you sleep walking.
Then...
Talk about trees falling in the forest.
Disturbing leaves on other trees.
Your philosophical outlook on life,
I have to admit gives me goosebumps.
In the most unusual romantic way.'


Scheme XABBXCDE DFG A A HIJXXXCXXEXAJ ACAEAFJKXXXG ALHHCXXKJX GMNXCXE XD JXN XFDXIXLJXJM
Poetic Form
Metre 101 10100100 11 100101 101111011 0101011 1110110010 1010110 111101110 0111 1111 111011111000 111000 01 1010010 1 1110010111 11010001 01000011 101011 011001101 1111 110010 111 1100100 110110110100 10 101010101111 100 10 1110101101 100100111 1110010 111010 11110101 11100111 11111101 1011 10 101110010 10101 111011011 011101 1110111110 011011111 11111110 0110101 11110001010 111111011 111101101 11111 1110 11110111011 1011 111101010 0 010 1111 101011111 1101111 1 11110111 10110 111010011101 111110 1 1011100010 01011101 10100111 11101111 0010100101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 2,021
Words 435
Sentences 57
Stanzas 11
Stanza Lengths 8, 3, 1, 1, 13, 12, 10, 7, 2, 3, 11
Lines Amount 71
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 139
Words per stanza (avg) 32
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Written on June 22, 2022

Submitted by lpahtillah on June 22, 2022

Modified by lpahtillah on June 22, 2022

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