Analysis of Nothing Stays The Same

Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)



Nothing remains to stay always the same.
To maintain a routine,
That meets expectations.
With few exceptions.
Like...
The awaiting to anticipate,
A lowering of taxes and the changing of facts.
And perhaps a surprising of those,
Who grow to become horrified...
When discovering life,
Doesn't guarantee anyone immortality.
Even though death is as natural,
As air to breathe and food to eat.
Inhaling to exhale in to go and out to leave.

And yet...
Many are taught to teach,
What they do in life to succeed and reach...
The heights of pinnacle achievement.
Will return to them a permanent place,
In history.
Cemented in memories to remember forever.

Until...
There comes along,
Experts in the field of deception.
With evidence and proof,
Somewhere to have found...
Dug up from the ground.
Claiming themselves to be descendents,
Of ancestors who originated...
And built ancient pyramids.
Everywhere to discover on Earth.
But not a word is mentioned,
About their black to have ethnic heritage.

Nothing stays to remain unchanged.
Especially truth kept hidden.
Until a way is found to diminish its reality.
With an updating appearance of an image.
Innovatively restored
Redefined and approved.
Marketed to accept and idolized to worship!


Scheme XXAAXXXXXXBXXX XCCXXBX XXDXEEXXXXXF XDBFXXX
Poetic Form Etheree  (20%)
Metre 100111101 101001 11010 11010 1 00101010 0100110001011 001001011 1110110 101001 1001100100 101111100 11110111 0101010110111 01 101111 1110110101 011100010 1011101001 0100 01001001010010 01 1101 100011010 110001 1111 11101 100111010 11010100 0110100 10101011 1101110 01111110100 10110101 0101110 0101111010110 110100101110 101 001001 100101010110
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,233
Words 241
Sentences 28
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 14, 7, 12, 7
Lines Amount 40
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 244
Words per stanza (avg) 50
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Written on January 14, 2023

Submitted by lpahtillah on January 14, 2023

Modified on April 26, 2023

1:12 min read
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