Analysis of Infatuated
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Your desires are too hypnotic to avoid.
You are like a drug to an addiction.
Trying their very best not to submit.
Or give in without defending,
A mind controlled by common sense.
Leaving powerless good intentions meant.
You know the doing is evil.
And act of self serving satisfaction.
Even the strength,
Of my weakening pretentions....
Surfacing by the pull of your determination,
To have me victimized magnetically...
For purposes only to please your needs.
I can not help but rise to the occasion.
As if on demand whenever you command it.
What is it you take me for?
Your personal to use anytime fool?
'No.
I just find it easier,
To stop listening...
How you promise to make better,
Each time we meet for conversation.
Then hearing you beg from me for more.
Knowing I anticipate,
The confidence of your slow and inviting way...
You volunteer,
Easy to take comprehension...
Understood to understand free of B.S.'
'Huh?
What?'
'Each time we meet now,
Less intelligent we have become...
About our expectations!
And that remains to keep me infatuated.
Attracted.
With it kept to know,
Needs to have them met...
Should always stay basic to desire.
Complicating the obvious,
Is a dull life to imitate, fiction and delude.'
'I am not a hypocrite.'
'Trust me.
That you have already made known!'
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101011010101 1110111010 1011011101 11001010 01011101 1010010101 11010110 011110010 1001 111001 100101110010 11110001000 1100101111 11111110010 111010101011 1111111 110011101 1 1111100 11100 11101110 11111010 110111111 101010 010011100101 101 1011010 01101111 1 1 11111 101001101 0110010 01011110100 010 11111 11111 111101010 1000100 101111010001 111010 11 11101011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,297 |
Words | 273 |
Sentences | 35 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 7, 2, 11, 2, 10, 1, 2 |
Lines Amount | 43 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 125 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Written on March 04, 2023
Submitted by lpahtillah on March 04, 2023
Modified on March 06, 2023
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