Analysis of The Difference Made

Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)



To be different is a gift.
Some may say,
Is a blessing.
A blessing,
One is born and special to get.
However,
Often they are the ones...
To reject and not accept.
Day in and day out.
Kept reminded,
Of their difference.
To hear it and listen to the negativity.
That comes out...
From ignorant mouths.
With it done to pretend,
Of having thick skin.
To move around and about.
Without a feeling to feel inside of them felt.

Yet...
Continue,
The ones depicted different.
And unlike others,
Normalized with approved dysfunctions.
Those labelled different,
Do what they do best.
To accept to learn, observe and view,
Others who declare themselves...
Approved like the rest for everything they do.
Yet also much different,
From the ones...
Who live to respect others done to choose...
A not passing of judgement.
With a doing to prove,
Being different...
Is a much better way to live.
Than being amongst fools.
Fools.
Quick to identify and qualified accepted.
Wherever they go,
Not noticed at all to make a difference made!
Nor knowing what it takes to prove,
A making of a difference made can be done!
And to do.
Regardless of what label picked to select,
Is tattooed on their backs to attract attention!


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Poetic Form Tetractys  (36%)
Metre 11100101 111 1010 010 11101011 10 101101 1010101 10011 1010 11100 111010100100 111 11001 111101 11011 1101001 010101101111 1 010 01010100 00110 10101010 110100 11111 101110101 1010101 0110111011 1101100 101 1110110111 0110110 101011 10100 10110111 110011 1 11010010010 01011 110111101001 11011111 010101001111 011 01011101101 101111101010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 1,198
Words 255
Sentences 31
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 18, 27
Lines Amount 45
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 464
Words per stanza (avg) 105
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Written on July 13, 2022

Submitted by lpahtillah on July 13, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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