Analysis of The Expense Of It
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
To laugh and have fun,
At someone else's expense.
Does not last that long.
Without paying the consequences for it.
And...
Seldom if ever,
Is that laughter heard to come.
Accompanied with fun to have again.
By anyone anticipating,
The enjoyment to pay...
For their own ignorance.
Or the meaning of what goes around.
That to get back from where it came,
Should not shock...
If the doing of THAT laughter does not stop!
| Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKLMNO |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
| Metre | 11011 111001 11111 0110010011 0 10110 1110111 0100111101 1100100 001011 111100 101011101 11111111 111 10101110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 416 |
| Words | 88 |
| Sentences | 11 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 15 |
| Lines Amount | 15 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 321 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 74 |
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Written on September 24, 2022
Submitted by lpahtillah on September 24, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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