Analysis of Impulsive
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Children can and often are forgiven,
For the making of impulsive decisions.
Made based upon appearances.
Learning early to assume.
As well as judge.
And taught this to pass.
Done from one to another.
On what is seen to quickly compare,
To observe and witness,
Kept in their minds cemented.
As if connecting to reality.
With a doing of a 'normalcy',,
Accepted yet seldom rejected.
Children grow and apply what they known.
Taught to teach.
Across all fields of professions restricted.
To looks, labels and appearances compared.
And underneath,
These fast to profile surfaces...
Nothing else goes deep enough to share.
Or care about the differences,
Of immune systems.
Although the same routines are used to treat,
The similarities of symptoms.
Removed away and having nothing to do,
With a listening to understanding...
The contents felt within one's mind,
Gone to ignore...
To find something more suitable,
From what has been taught to teach...
For too long to believe,
In the wrong way to do things.
But a degree to have earned,
In fields of professions restricted to limits...
Kept safe are the ones with minds who feel,
A normalcy accepted is a life lived better...
Than adventuring to explore the unknown.
Like...
Well,
Like pioneers...
Adventuring to explore the unknown.
Unaware or caring less,
About the looks of things.
Or impressions made.
Labels placed or their maverick ways.
Today to have brought benefits,
Into the lives of many passing judgement.
Jumping to conclusions.
And making impulsive decisions.
Based upon fiction to delude truth and reality.
With a doing to believe,
Themselves descendants of royalty.
Oh...
Such an ugly web.
Allowed woven to weave,
A quilt deceived by impulsive liars.
Collecting wool sheared,
Off the backs of sheep.
For money to pocket exclusively.
Cheering the impulsive slaughter,
Of their own doing to pleasure and please...
The very ones with false tongues.
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Metre | 1010101010 10101010010 11010100 1010101 1111 01111 1111010 111111001 101010 1011010 11010110 101010100 010110010 101001111 111 01111010010 11100010001 001 1111100 101110111 110101000 10110 101011111 00100110 01010101011 101001010 01010111 1101 11101100 1111111 111101 0011111 1001111 011010010110 111011111 0100010101110 11101001 1 1 101 1101001 011101 010111 10101 101111001 01111100 01011101010 101010 010010010 101101011010 1010101 010101100 1 11101 011011 0101101010 01011 10111 1101100100 10001010 1111011001 0101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,907 |
Words | 375 |
Sentences | 42 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 13, 24, 15, 10 |
Lines Amount | 62 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 377 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 78 |
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