Analysis of The Right Time
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
No time is like the right time found.
To know and define,
What the meaning of wrong is.
And to observe and witness it applied.
Wherever one goes,
Giving and receiving it.
With more awaiting in anticipation,
As if planted crops protected and nourished.
Encouraged impatiently watching them grow.
There is no time like these times today lived.
When delicious lies are told to be sold.
Leaving many craving the taste of negativity.
Fed to feed on deception allowed.
Regardless,
Of the damage done to their mentalities.
'Would you like another dose,
Of this effective self inflicting disease?
That has possibilities of addicting your mind,
Permanently?'
'Don't be so sarcastic.
Of course we want more.
What do think we are here for?
Approval and acceptance?
Your attempt at cynicism,
Would be better served...
To those looking at us,
As if appalled and offended.
We are here at the right time.
And at the right place.
With the hope to awaken,
The many still refusing to deny...
What time it is and the taste of truth.'
'But...
Isn't your truth fictioned to delude?'
'No one at this table,
Ordered sweetened rhetoric.
Semantics or hypocrisies.
With a side of beliefs,
No one values to keep as leftovers.
Nor are we living in denial.
To pretend a feeding on B.S.
Maintains a positive and healthy glow.'
'Oh.
So you all are...'
'Patriots.
The original ones.'
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110111 11001 1010111 0101010101 01011 1000101 1101000010 11101010010 01001001011 1111111011 1010111111 1010100110100 111101001 010 10101111 1110101 11010101001 110100101011 1000 111010 11111 1111111 0100010 1011100 11101 111011 11010010 1111011 01011 1011010 0101010101 111100111 1 10111101 111110 1010100 01011 101101 111011110 111100010 10101011 0101000101 1 1111 100 001001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,358 |
Words | 286 |
Sentences | 37 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 9, 6, 4, 13, 2, 8, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 46 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 131 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Written on July 05, 2022
Submitted by lpahtillah on July 05, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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