Analysis of Witnessing History
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Witnessing history.
In the year 2023.
Publicly.
Free of fiction to delude.
Or...
Have it alleged,
False to create it.
With a pleasing to appease,
Those who protest against...
The laws to follow to eliminate them.
And...
Presented for all to see.
Whether to accept, reject,
Or completely refuse the proof of evidence.
That even a blind bat.
Seen sleeping unaware in a darkened cave,
Could not deny by hiding away.
From the dawning upon the horizon.
Appearing.
As a possibility to restore and save,
Democracy dimming to fade.
Yet...
Returning,
As the home of the brave.
And definitely remaining faithful.
To justice for all to stay.
Regardless of threats made.
Terrorizing a way of life.
By the few believing themselves entitled,
To turn a country and its greatness...
Upside down and crush into the ground.
For senseless reasons to demean,
And invent division to implement...
Civil unrest to expect more to accept,
Who they are to pretend it to fiction...
Themselves being replaced.
By an ethnic diversity.
They too participate to include.
But choose ignorance to prove,
A wanting to wish to be the only image...
And face,
Of a democracy everyone should embrace.
Without truth or reality.
That a witnessing history in the year 2023,
Publicly.
Free of fiction to delude the facts.
Produced with evidence and proof.
Presented for all to see.
Whether to accept, reject.
Or stay remaining to live in denial!
As expected...
Many will choose to do.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 100100 001 100 1110101 1 1101 11011 1010101 11101 0111010101 0 0101111 1010101 101001011100 110011 1100100101 110111001 1010010010 010 10010010101 01001011 1 010 101101 0100001010 1101111 010111 1000111 10101001010 110100110 111010101 11010101 0010101100 10011011101 1111011110 01101 11100100 11010101 1110011 010111101010 01 10010010101 011110 10100100001 100 111010101 01110001 0101111 1010101 11010110010 1010 101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,441 |
Words | 294 |
Sentences | 40 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 52 |
Lines Amount | 52 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 1,127 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 243 |
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