Analysis of Show It To Prove

Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)



Walk the walk and stop the talk.
To prove what it is,
You can or can not do.
With an effort to endeavor it.
Without comparing,
Yourself to me and others too.
Who are observed trying to improve,
Mistakes to have been made.
Eliminating excuses to use,
As a way to escape...
Away from being criticized,
From every step to take.
In a direction you are afraid,
Others may not approve of doing.
That makes you the one to feel,
Outcast and unacceptable.
By the ones caring less.
How awful the mess they have created is.

Walk the walk.
Can you do this and refuse the B.S?
Or do you choose to stay,
Claiming to blame your quality of life...
Beginning to swirl,
Around and down a cesspool.
While you turn your nose up.
Like others together sitting on their butts.
With fingers pointed to the very ones,
Attempting to face...
All mistakes everyone has made.
Done to refuse to listen to,
Those who do nothing but sit.
And continue to do it.
Complaining to blame,
The ones doing more...
Than sit to point fingers at others,
Doing the best they can...
To clean up the filth and smell,
That has addicted an ignorance...
Known too well.
Yet...
Accepted as part of your heritage to pass on!
With a doing to show it to prove,
Your pride!

'Pride?
Who says we are proud of this?'

No one has to say,
What is observed and allowed to exist!
While those who blame and sit.
Accusing others,
Of seeking attention for themselves to get!

'Oh?
So now you are using reverse psychology?'

No.
We're using blood, sweat and tears.
Effort endeavored with elbow grease!
Something words to hear heard expressed,
Are better left where they are to go ignored.


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Poetic Form
Metre 1010101 11111 111111 111010101 01010 01110101 110110101 011111 010001011 101101 0111010 1100111 000101101 101101110 1110111 100100 101101 11001110101 101 111100101 111111 1011110011 01011 010101 111111 11001010111 1101010101 01011 1011011 11011101 1111011 0010111 01011 01101 111110110 100111 1110101 110101100 111 1 0101111100111 101011111 11 1 1111111 11111 1101001101 111101 01010 11001010111 1 111110010100 1 1101101 10010111 10111101 11011111101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,625
Words 359
Sentences 40
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 18, 25, 2, 5, 2, 5
Lines Amount 57
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 208
Words per stanza (avg) 50
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Written on July 13, 2022

Submitted by lpahtillah on July 13, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

1:48 min read
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