Analysis of My Only Wish To Want
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
My only wish to want is you.
Me and others too.
To wish and want us all to do.
Is to choose one choice to raise our voices,
High and loud enough to be heard.
Done to have it shown and known,
Together we gathered unafraid to say...
There has to be a better way to achieve,
Peace!
Without,
Division.
Racism and bigotry.
To accept as a direction to receive,
A quality of life.
These conflicting tumultuous days,
Inflicting to disease and separate...
So many in ways to remain to stay,
Believing to what to them has been told.
And not bold to open wider their eyes,
To observe it witnessed for themselves...
Truth deceived hidden purposely,
Is nowhere near to appear threatening...
Those behind shut and isolated closed doors.
But inside those closed doors.
Where rumors are created.
And lies celebrated to spread more chaos.
To wish and it wanted to get!
My only wish to want is you.
Me and others too.
Is to stop listening to the few.
Doing what they have done to do,
To create havoc to have it spread...
Fiction to delude minds unused in heads.
That has caused,
The epidemic of mental illness everywhere!
Scheme | AAaxxxbcxxxdcxxxbxxxdxeexxx AAaaxxxx |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (29%) |
Metre | 11011111 10101 11011111 11111111010 10101111 1111101 0101100111 11110101101 1 01 010 100100 10110010101 010011 10101001 010101010 1100110111 0101111111 0111101011 101110101 10110100 111101100 1011010011 101111 1101010 0110011110 11011011 11011111 10101 111100101 10111111 101101111 1010110101 111 00101101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,104 |
Words | 236 |
Sentences | 24 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 27, 8 |
Lines Amount | 35 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 429 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 101 |
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Written on November 17, 2022
Submitted by lpahtillah on November 17, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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