Analysis of Great To Have It
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Making...
What,
Great again?
If what was once great to have it.
Known and appreciated to accomplish.
Yet...
With a doing to destroy,
What it had been to know.
Was it the false images.
And status given to idolize heros.
Exaggerating to embellish,
Their fictionalized lives on battle fields.
What is it that is being made great again?
The raising of delusion,
Having nothing to do with truth.
The introducing of more fantasies,
Created to animate and easily produced.
What is it that is being made great again?
Covered wagons pulled by horses,
Through prairies where the Buffalo roam.
While the calvary rushes to protect them.
Not to know where they are,
Without the use of cellphones.
What is it that is being made great again?
Myths to wish,
Could recapture back...
Those of innocent visions defending,
Lives lived removed from facts.
What is IT that is wanted great, again?
And what is it being made great again from?
By the very ones more familiar,
With the teaching to instruct...
Their meaning of destruction.
Taught upfront and hands on shown!
Scheme | axb xcxxxdxcx BexxxBdxxxdBcxax bxxxex |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10 1 101 11111111 1001001010 1 1010101 111111 1101100 0101011010 01001010 110011101 11111101101 0101010 10101111 001011100 0101100010001 11111101101 10101110 11010101 10100101011 111111 010111 11111101101 111 10101 1110010010 110111 1111110101 01111011011 101011010 1010101 1101010 110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,051 |
Words | 216 |
Sentences | 24 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 9, 16, 6 |
Lines Amount | 34 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 207 |
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
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