Analysis of Dismantled

Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)



So many duped and quick.
To rid and dismantle truth,
Permanently from their minds.
As if,
A showing to have used common sense,
In days like these...
Perceived to be an embarrassment.
And pledged they have to honor,
Thoughtlessness.
A gift from birth they were blessed with.

Remarkable.
What can be staged then made convinced.
To an unconscious mind,
Purposely left hypnotically distracted.

How can anyone today still think,
They can afford to leave truth left ignored?
Or that a door told to leave open,
In the midst of a Winter blizzard...
Will lower their heating bill?
Once upon a time and not too long ago,
A comment made like this...
Would offend those using common sense.

Today?
More are surviving on lies to defend them.
Fictioning to delude whatever to them told.
And sold to see on their home addicting TVs.
Believing the very ones,
Grinning in their faces.
While selling them lies turning their lives,
Into a living Hell and doing it well.
With a giving of support endorsing it done.

Yet...
No life to live can exist like this,
Regardless who may believe...
The quality of it is being threatened.
Threatened by the ones observing to witness,
Sickened mentalities...
Self inflicting themselves defending it done.
In their attempt to have everyone,
Accept, approve and made to believe...
Their ability to create and make themselves,
Portrayed as victims...
Is innovative.
And never done before!

Remarkable.
What can be staged and made convinced.
To an unconscious mind,
Purposely left hypnotically distracted.
Used and abused.
Factless and detached!
Lacking self awareness.
And what it had meant to have kept valued.


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Poetic Form
Metre 110101 1100101 1000111 11 010111101 0111 011110100 0111110 1 01111011 0100 11111101 11101 10011010 11100111 1101111101 110111110 001101010 1101101 10101011101 010111 101110101 01 11010111011 110110111 01111110101 0100101 100110 110111011 01010101011 101010101011 1 111110111 0101101 01001111010 10101010110 101 10100101011 01011110 010101101 101001010101 01110 1100 010101 0100 11110101 11101 10011010 1001 1001 101010 0111111110
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,629
Words 326
Sentences 37
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 10, 4, 8, 9, 13, 8
Lines Amount 52
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 214
Words per stanza (avg) 45
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Written on August 25, 2022

Submitted by lpahtillah on August 25, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

1:37 min read
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