Analysis of Not A Back That Is Turned
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
As a child I learned,
Not a back that is turned...
Will change what appears,
As facts known to see.
Any different than they were to be.
What people decide,
They will choose to do.
With a knowing of it done.
Intentionally.
If they lie to deceive,
To have their lies believed.
There is no need to resent,
What they do habitually.
Move on.
'What are you saying?'
'People who live their lives to lie.'
People who live their lives to lie are liars!
'Is that it?
Is that all?'
Why pretend what is known to be,
Is not what it is.
To be something else differently.
Tell me...
If you have a toothache,
How long will it take...
You to become convinced,
That ache you feel is fake and not real?
'Yeah.
But...
Someone who lies,
Done to intentionally tell others.
How do those others,
Eventually discover it?'
That?
I do not know.
However...
I do know this,
Once my toes are stepped on?
I am not one to go back,
To ask if the doing had been intentional.
That is something I will not ask,
Of a toe stepping on my foot liar!
'I...uh...
Nevermind!'
Remember...
Only you can prevent being deceived.
Scheme | AAXBB XXXBXCXBD X X E FX BXBBXXXX XXXEEF XXGXDXXXG XX GC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10111 101111 11101 11111 1010011011 1101 11111 1010111 01000 111101 111101 1111101 11101000 11 11110 10111111 10111111110 111 111 10111111 11111 11101100 11 11101 11111 110101 111111011 1 1 111 1101000110 11110 010000101 1 1111 10 1111 111111 1111111 111010110100 11101111 1011011110 1 10 010 1011011001 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,104 |
Words | 264 |
Sentences | 35 |
Stanzas | 11 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 9, 1, 1, 1, 2, 8, 6, 9, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 46 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 73 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Written on September 03, 2022
Submitted by lpahtillah on September 03, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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