Analysis of From The Inside Out
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Burning!
From the inside out.
Melting masks revealing tasks,
Of sad faces embracing embers of madness.
Supported and endorsing,
A craze homemade.
Determined to fade until eliminated,
Truth and the reality.
Incapable to reduce to ruin.
Or seduce to produced delusions.
Truth!
Is as truth is to stay unaffected.
By mentalities detected in flames.
Slowly burning away.
From the inside out.
Melting masks revealing faces with tasks.
Of a sad crazed madness.
Burning minds unable to find...
An exit to protect them from the effectiveness,
That has backfired upon themselves.
Without help or rescue,
From supporters who are observed...
Abandoning such tasks.
As fast and as far away from devastation.
Self inflicted.
Homemade.
And burning from the inside out.
Closing mouths.
Silenced.
By their own homemaking,
Of internal violence they started.
Yet...
Could or would not prevent to stop,
A shouting match that lit the flames!
Leaving no one else to accuse or blame,
But themselves.
From the inside out where it began to burn.
Suffocating.
Scheme | aBcdaefxgx xhixBcdxdjxxcg hebxxafxxixjxa |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10 10011 1010101 111001010110 0100010 0111 01011010100 10010 0100101110 101101010 1 111111010 1101001 101001 10011 1010101011 101110 10101011 1101011100100 11100101 011110 10101101 010011 11011011010 1010 11 01010011 101 10 11110 1010100110 1 11110111 01011101 1011110111 101 10011110111 100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,035 |
Words | 205 |
Sentences | 30 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 14, 14 |
Lines Amount | 38 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 275 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 55 |
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