Analysis of Too Often Done To Do

Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)



Too often done to do.
With excuses found to use.

We love to blame on others,
What we choose.
And If that choice to make,
We can't accept...
We will lie.
Deny and reject it.
Then to claim,
Not to hear...
A single word heard to pay attention.

Too often this we'll do.
With excuses made to use.

We love to argue.
All day and night.
Over what somebody says.
That maybe right.
But still we want it,
Our way to have.
Then to get it.
Yet not not admit,
Just how stupid we feel.
With belief nobody knows,
What to them we have exposed.

Not often done to do,
Is...
Close our mouths.
And pay attention.
With our ears to use.
Open and to listen.

Not too often done to do is...
Hear what's said.
To hear it clear.
Before a choice is made,
With it proven to be stupid!
Too often this is done to do.
And...
Without it for no one to prove.


Scheme AB XXXXXCXXD AB AEXECXCCXXX AFXDBD FXXXXAXX
Poetic Form
Metre 110111 1010111 1111110 111 011111 1101 111 010011 111 111 0101111010 110111 1010111 11110 1101 101101 1101 11111 10111 1111 11101 111011 10111 1111101 110111 1 1101 01010 110111 100110 11101111 111 1111 010111 11101110 11011111 0 01111111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 828
Words 208
Sentences 30
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 2, 9, 2, 11, 6, 8
Lines Amount 38
Letters per line (avg) 16
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 101
Words per stanza (avg) 28
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Written on August 15, 2022

Submitted by lpahtillah on August 15, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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