Analysis of Too High To Climb
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
The only mountain,
Found too high to climb.
Represents just another obstacle,
People turn away.
To find a molehill of excuses.
Found to make,
More of them to refuse.
A using of their minds to use and imagine,
The removing from themselves...
Any and all opposition,
Thought to believe is a negative attempt...
To prevent them from moving forward.
That mountain to face is no different,
Than whatever it is...
Most attempt to look the other way.
If it should involve reality and the truth of it!
Whether they do,
To delude, fiction and deny.
| Scheme | ABCDEFGAHAIJKEDLMN |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01010 11111 011010100 10101 11011010 111 111101 010111110010 0010101 1001010 11011010001 101111010 1101111100 11011 101110101 111011000111 1011 10110001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 539 |
| Words | 112 |
| Sentences | 11 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 18 |
| Lines Amount | 18 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 420 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 95 |
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Written on July 18, 2022
Submitted by lpahtillah on July 18, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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