Analysis of Self Righteous Eyes
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
There are some who are taught,
To use self righteous innocent eyes.
With a doing to hide the truth.
Of their comfort to deceive, cheat and lie.
Masquerading the charading to parade,
False faces from one day to the next.
Without a consciousness.
Or a known mindset to comprehend,
Which life they should live to know it best.
And they become the ones,
Observed to protest against reality.
Since honesty, truth without it fictioned.
Among themselves is not to be believed.
With a doing to protect,
What they have been taught to teach...
To the young and others much younger.
Left alone to roam,
On today's suburban and urban streets.
Victimizing themselves.
And others too to accept and believe,
Their criminal activities...
Will save a decaying democracy.
Doing this to prove,
Common sense to defend and use...
Had not been on the agenda or minds.
Of those who taught it to teach,
Amusing to abuse is okay to do to excuse it.
For them is more beneficial than not.
If they remain claiming,
A democracy to live it...
Is as rotten as picking cotton.
'Huh? What?
Where on Earth did they hear that?'
And they were not born to be enslaved.
To live like that for the rest of their days.
'Who...
Messed their minds up?
To leave them believing such nonsense!'
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,254 |
Words | 266 |
Sentences | 30 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 9, 7, 6, 9, 2, 2, 3 |
Lines Amount | 38 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 139 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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