Analysis of When I Look At You
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
When I look at you.
I see myself too.
In ways I use to refuse to see,
There is to be...
A familiar similarity.
Once to have denied,
That which I felt inside...
Yet,
I will admit...
Your attempts to try to tell me this,
I thought then ridiculous.
You see as I do now,
What I appeared to want to be outside...
No lie that I told to myself,
Would make no difference.
To believe kept hidden.
And from who?
With it to change,
More or less the value of it.
Than we were both born blessed to live.
And...
Experience it to get.
Regardless,
Who looks at either one of us.
Not as close as we have chosen to do.
With our eyes opened wide.
Recognizing,
The pointlessness...
Of those seeking to find their differences.
On the outside.
But not from the inside to compare,
Nothing there found is shallow!
When I look at you.
Really look at you?
You are more complex.
And a whole lot deeper than I thought!
And...
Believe this or not.
What I eat to digest,
Finds its way to be eliminated!
'Me too!
Who knew?!'
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111 1111 011110111 1111 00100100 11101 111101 1 1101 101111111 1110100 111111 1101111111 1111111 111100 101110 011 1111 11101011 11011111 0 0100111 010 11110111 1111111011 1101101 100 01 11101111000 1011 111001101 1011110 11111 10111 11110 001110111 0 01111 111101 111110100 11 11 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,014 |
Words | 246 |
Sentences | 34 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 11, 21, 4, 4, 2 |
Lines Amount | 42 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 148 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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Written on September 22, 2022
Submitted by lpahtillah on September 22, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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