Analysis of Do You Know Them
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Do you know them.
Or had known them.
And the experience of it,
Seems to be...
An unforgettable experience.
Either way,
The memory of them stays.
Do you know them.
The ones who can not accept others.
For who those others are to be.
Are the very ones,
Who can not accept themselves.
Or feel secure,
In their own ethnic identities.
Do you know them.
Or had known them.
The ones who believe they see,
Themselves perfect from head to toe.
With possessions to value.
As if attention to them is owed.
And always heard to mention,
Without it solicited.
For opinions given to belittle and judge,
What someone else does.
Done to do as if they themselves,
Are above reproach.
And beneath spending time to find,
Improvement.
Lots of it.
Do you know them.
Or had known them.
The they of those with their noses up.
That should be lowered.
To sniff what comes out of their own butts.
And much too often not to notice it.
Scheme | AAbcxxx Axcxdxx AAcxxxxxxxdxxxb AAxxxb |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (31%) |
Metre | 1111 1111 00010011 111 101000100 101 0100111 1111 011110110 11110111 10101 1110101 1101 011100100 1111 1111 0110111 01011111 1010110 110101111 011110 0110100 101010101001 1111 11111101 10101 00110111 010 111 1111 1111 011111101 11110 111111111 0111011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 908 |
Words | 205 |
Sentences | 26 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 7, 15, 6 |
Lines Amount | 35 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 175 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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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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