Analysis of Forgiveness Mode
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Those who stay and remain cemented,
In an irreversible forgiveness mode.
Most know,
That a trying to make attempts to remember...
Who did what a long time ago.
Done to do when and why.
To repeatedly forgive to excuse their alibis.
For them to forgive,
Over and over again.
With a forgetting to remember,
Who did what to do and when.
That makes no difference if again forgiven.
Or wanting to wish,
What was done and why to who.
When the doing of it,
Had been intended or not and why care?
'Wow.
It's you.
I don't believe this.
And look at you looking at me.
As if you don't remember who I am!'
'And,
I...uh...hope,
You will not insist I remember...
The reason behind,
You and the memory...
Has gone to nolonger remain in my mind.'
'Will you stop joking like that.
You don't remember me?
We had the same English class.
In Junior High School.
Remember?
That was 60 years ago!'
'I...uh...I...
Oh.
Is that you?'
'YES.
It sure is.'
'You haven't changed a bit.
I am so glad to have seen you.
If you don't mind,
I was just rushing inside the store...
To pick up a can of B.S.'
'I meant to say Baked Salmon!'
'Why not?
Everything today seems so...'
'Now don't tell me you're a mind reader too!?'
'I won't.
Although...
I am a forgiver of all lies told to me by liars!'
'Now...
That's something we both have in common.'
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111001010 0101000101 11 101011011010 11101101 111101 1010001101110 11101 1001001 100101010 1111101 111100101010 11011 1110111 101011 1101011011 1 11 11011 01111011 1111010111 0 1 111011010 01001 100100 111101011 1111011 110101 1101101 01011 010 11101 1 1 111 1 111 110101 11111111 1111 111100101 1110111 1111110 11 100111 1111101101 11 1 1101111111110 1 110111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,355 |
Words | 325 |
Sentences | 52 |
Stanzas | 12 |
Stanza Lengths | 16, 5, 6, 6, 3, 2, 5, 1, 2, 1, 3, 2 |
Lines Amount | 52 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 79 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Written on August 01, 2022
Submitted by lpahtillah on August 01, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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