Analysis of Duty Calls

Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)



A duty calls,
For some to imagine...
Themselves born to be keepers,
Of the keys to closed doors.
And this duty calls,
For many to perceive...
Themselves born to rule over people.
What they do to choose,
And...
Everything!

Man has made created to have it believed...
That,
What some chose and choose to do...
Meets God's acceptance and approval too.
Man has made created to have it believed...
That,
Those who destroy and destruct...
Sit at the top of God's list.
And picked by God to favor,
To do as they wish!
As ducks rush to sit quietly,
Having their feathers plucked.
Without making a sound or moving their lips.

This?
This is B.S.
Yet what's the point of even thinking it?

What man has created...
Is a mess.
Whatever it is called to address it.
These days we lived together,
Is a man-made mess.
With a duty needing to be recalled.
What man has created...
To stall a future coming to all.
Is a mess.
With a duty needing to be recalled.

What these days man has made,
Is a...
Woman and man made mess.
Yes.
Both a woman and man made mess.
Witnessed.
What these days man has made to create!


Scheme axxxaxxxxx BCddBCexfxxex xag HIgfiJHxIJ xxiiixx
Poetic Form
Metre 0101 111010 0111110 101111 01101 110101 011111010 11111 0 10 11101011101 1 1110111 1101000101 11101011101 1 1101001 1101111 0111110 11111 11111100 101101 01100111011 1 111 1101110101 111010 101 10111111 1111010 10111 1010101101 111010 110101011 101 1010101101 111111 10 100111 1 10100111 10 111111101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 1,094
Words 251
Sentences 34
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 10, 13, 3, 10, 7
Lines Amount 43
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 164
Words per stanza (avg) 41
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Written on October 16, 2022

Submitted by lpahtillah on October 16, 2022

Modified by lpahtillah on October 16, 2022

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