Analysis of An Exhausting Attempt
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Ignorance taught to teach it.
From birth to feed,
As a need to keep...
Truth and reality as distant as possible.
To allow a successful mind to mold,
Done to do...
To conform one's mind to do as told.
With a certainty this activity will be obeyed.
And consciously followed as a way of life.
Without truth and the reality of it involved?
Has to be,
The cause and reason...
Mental illness intentionally inflicted,
As a sickening disease...
Gone undetected or suspected,
To have been homemade created.
Imitated to impress.
And confined to those with minds,
Limited to fiction only to comprehend...
The ones also taught to teach,
To believe in those interests...
They know to represent.
Scheme | ABCDEFEGHIJKLMNNOPQRST |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1001111 1111 10111 10101101100 1010010111 111 101111111 10100101001101 01001010111 01100101101 111 01010 101001000010 1010001 10101010 11111010 100101 0011111 10011010101 0110111 1010110 11101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 681 |
Words | 138 |
Sentences | 15 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 22 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 530 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 117 |
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