Analysis of Inspiring Is Enlightenment

Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)



Inspiring is enlightenment.
Like fresh oxygen is to breathe.
With a keeping to remain aware.
And a mind one begins to find,
Clearing of needlessness.
With a doing of it to finally leave behind,
Nonsense left where it is.
Recognized to identify,
As neither a gift nor suitable to benefit...
Anyone who claims,
Ignorance has value.
That advances humanity with its use.

Although...
As inspiring as enlightenment is to have it.
Today?
Seems to be no challenge,
For the ones facing on a daily basis...
People supporting others out of their minds.
And observed to witness them,
Recruiting more.

More who have been,
Out of their minds for a very long time.
As if to have been living,
In a future that has now arrived!

'All this time,
I thought them to be the nuts.
And today?
They are sought to give advice.
As if 'psychics' or 'gurus'.
Tell me...
Who are the ones these days that are crazed?

Don't be staring at me like that!'

'I'm just wondering.
Was it denial that took you so long to notice.
Or was it the fear of not being accepted.'

'Me?
I am not crazy.'

'I know.
It's okay.'

'Seriously I'm not!'

'I got your back, bruh.
Don't worry about it.'

'You think I am, huh?
You think, you think...
You think I'm pretending to be sane.
I am.
I know I am.
I am blinded by enlightenment.
I can smell the morning dew.
And there I sit.
To greet the Sun.
Rising to dawn upon the horizon.'

'It's okay.
I believe you!
Even though it is barely 3 in the afternoon.
You got it, bruh.
You got it!'


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Poetic Form
Metre 01010100 11100111 101010101 00110111 1011 1010111100101 101111 101010 1100111001100 1011 100110 10100100111 1 1010101001111 01 111110 10110101010 10010101111 0011101 0101 1111 1111101011 1111110 001011101 111 1111101 001 1111101 111011 11 110111111 11101111 11100 1101011111110 111011110010 1 11110 11 11 100011 11111 110011 11111 1111 111010111 11 1111 111010100 1110101 0111 1101 1011010010 11 1011 10111100001 1111 111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 1,487
Words 345
Sentences 49
Stanzas 12
Stanza Lengths 12, 8, 4, 7, 1, 3, 2, 2, 1, 2, 10, 5
Lines Amount 57
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 92
Words per stanza (avg) 23
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Written on August 27, 2022

Submitted by lpahtillah on August 27, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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