Analysis of Hands Out Of Pockets
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Hands out of pockets,
Still seen doing what?
More of the same.
To claim promises forthcoming.
Yet none from them made concrete comes.
When people like this insist,
They will never give up their struggle...
To prevent looking as if cuckoo and quacks.
They fight back against the truth.
Proving their minds,
Once to have had split in halves.
With both sides incapable to use.
Yet...
All will claim to have fantastic genius brains.
But...
Where are they to keep?
When the money begins draining,
From hands out of pockets...
To have had this believed by followers,
Tricked, duped and deceived...
That a genius dressed to impress,
Can actually perform this delusion.
Although...
Without the money to address fiction,
With hands out their pockets and others...
To fleece and leach.
Is a knuckle dragging reality from a past.
A past from which those endorse to follow.
Pray and wish to dream come back.
With a pledging their loyalty and allegiance.
As they sit to fantasize in a romanticize daze,
A future of peace and nonstop progress!
'I don't get it.
What are those people doing?'
'Fighting for a past to have it back.
Then...
Observe and witness what they do next!'
'This is crazy.
They crossed the street...
To then fight with those,
Claiming the same thing wanted?'
'Wait.
Observe and witness what happens next.'
'Now...
Both sides are together shouting,
For peace and progress to have.
But without all the talk,
Of immigrants, ethnic diversity.
Racism, division.
Or the teaching of truth and its history!'
'This nonsense is crazy.'
'Soon it will be normalized.'
'More and more have begun to discuss,
Their sexual preferences.
And bragging between themselves,
As to which race takes pleasing the other...
More seriously!'
'What on Earth is going on?'
'Lies to tell and deception to sell it,
Discreetly kept.
With a mutual sharing,
Of pleasurable benefits.'
'Okay.
But what about those standards to value?'
'Oh...
Those?
These days?
They are being censored and banned.
By those pretentiously self righteous.
And paid to portray themselves,
As living correct and perfect human beings.
When giving those images,
Behind pulpits and podiums.
With speeches and sermons given.
As if visiting Earth from an alternate Universe!'
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (21%) |
Metre | 11110 11101 1101 11100110 11111011 1101101 111011110 1011011101 1110101 1011 1111101 111010011 1 11111010101 1 11111 10100110 111110 1111011100 11001 10101101 1100011010 1 010101110 111110010 1101 10101010101 0111101110 1011111 101011000010 111110000101 01011011 1111 1111010 101011111 1 010101111 1110 1101 11111 1001110 1 010101101 1 11101010 110111 101101 1100100100 10010 10101101100 110110 111110 101101101 11001000 0100101 1111110010 11000 1111101 1110010111 0101 1010010 11000100 1 1101110110 1 1 11 11101001 111110 0110101 110010011010 1101100 01100100 11001010 1110011110010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 2,244 |
Words | 462 |
Sentences | 60 |
Stanzas | 16 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 7, 15, 5, 2, 3, 4, 2, 7, 1, 1, 5, 1, 4, 2, 11 |
Lines Amount | 75 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 108 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Written on September 25, 2022
Submitted by lpahtillah on September 25, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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