Analysis of Pot And Kettle



'Increasingly it seems,
People are incapable...
To leave well enough alone.
Left that way to stay.
Yet will always find,
An excuse made to say...
Why it is others can not find the time,
To mind their own business.'

Like the pot calling the kettle black, right?

'Close.
And familiar is the analogy.
Although I am not into that kind of animation.
However,
Each to their way to delude what is denied...
To pretend and fiction what it is they do.'

Exactly.
Done to use and avoid,
The truth for what truth is!

'I see it this way...
Convenience is the key,
That opens the door for accusations to make.
And where would we be as a people,
Without deceptions created to celebrate.
From a molehill made into a mountain.
Never to arrive to the summit identified.'

I...uh...
Huh?
I like my tastes to remain basic.
You know...
Not complicated.
I go to my kitchen,
For one purpose.
And one purpose only.
To use whatever I need to cook,
What it is I am wanting to eat.
Without a pot, pan or kettle to ask,
For opinions.

'Think about it.'

I think not!
You're trying to start something.
And that 'something' I'm not in the mood for!
Why can't you just leave alone,
What's alone to leave?
Aren't there enough nuts cracked...
Running around loose.
Claiming themselves to be patriotic?
And loyal to beliefs needing serious scrutiny!


Scheme XABCXCXD X XEFXGX EXX CEXAXFG XXHXXFDEXXXX X XXXBXXXHE
Poetic Form
Metre 010011 1010100 1110101 11111 1111 101111 1111011101 111110 1011001011 1 0010100100 111101111010 10 11111011101 10101011111 010 111001 011111 11111 010101 11001101011 011111010 01010010110 101101010 101011010010 1 1 111110110 11 1100 111110 1110 011010 11101111 111111011 0101111011 1010 1011 111 1101110 0110110011 1111101 10111 1010111 10011 100111010 01010110100100
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,319
Words 291
Sentences 37
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 8, 1, 6, 3, 7, 12, 1, 9
Lines Amount 47
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 124
Words per stanza (avg) 30
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Written on April 18, 2023

Submitted by lpahtillah on April 18, 2023

Modified on April 19, 2023

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