Analysis of Not One New to Misunderstandings
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
I am not one new to misunderstandings.
Or mistakes by others admitting them.
To forgive and forget.
However...
Many live to want and wish,
Their own way to get and have it.
Done yet not to expect.
A doing did to do,
Produced the opposite effect.
Instead of admitting,
Their own mistakes to have made.
Immediately,
They abandon that train.
Taken on the wrong track.
And warned they were creating,
Their own pain from the start.
And when they realize,
Their actions alone to condone...
Had nothing to do with anyone else.
To begin to fall apart.
Breaking their own hearts?
Accusations to fault and blame others is done.
For what they did but not to do.
With a showing of empathy.
Or coming to their aid to provide rescue.
As if to care less to express concern.
To have heard it from others,
That a selfishness to keep that way...
More reflects an evilness kept.
And no one who has 'Christian' values,
Would allow themselves to ignore...
Someone in need.
Especially when it is known to be shown,
The obviousness of their dilemma.
'How can one like you be so selfish?
As if no one else exists but you!'
'Whose version of this tale are you telling?
And from where,
Did you get that point of view?'
'Me?
I am a listener.
I don't have to be a witness to observe,
The truth and facts...
About what actually happened.
And besides,
I am a devoted and faithful Christian!'
'With a rushing to believe,
Anything that you are told.'
'OH.
Yes.
Yes, of course.'
'And, I am not one new,
To misunderstandings, either.'
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Metre | 1111110010 1011100101 101001 10 1011101 11111011 111101 010111 01010001 011010 1101111 01000 101011 101011 0110010 111101 01110 11001101 110111101 1011101 10111 01011011011 11111111 10101100 11011110110 1111110101 1111110 101001111 101111 011111010 10101101 101 0101111111 0111010 111111110 111110111 1101111110 011 1111111 1 110100 11111010101 0101 01110010 001 11001001010 1010101 101111 1 1 111 011111 1001010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,542 |
Words | 343 |
Sentences | 44 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 9, 7, 18, 2, 3, 7, 2, 3, 2 |
Lines Amount | 53 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 127 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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