Analysis of Flushed Down The Drain
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
To allow a perceived right,
A flushing down the drain.
With a given not to earn,
An entitled life to do as one like.
Inspite of disliking,
Of who says to convince...
They should listen and despise,
Others living their lives...
Choosing from few,
Opportunities to them intended to refuse.
Can not be accused to be the ones,
Actively observed to see...
Destroying their quality of life to believe,
Others of ethnic identities...
In a land where democracy remains to exist.
Yet many deceived,
Have chosen fiction to delude...
Themselves alone and exclusively,
Are better qualified than others...
To live and receive entitlements to get.
Whether or not they pledge allegiance.
Proving their loyalty to a country democratic.
Although more concerned,
As to who is more deserving...
To sit around complaining to blame,
How a democracy is administered.
Done with an image,
Changing the face of it.
As if this progress should stay limited,
To the celebrating of permanent ignorance!
Already achieve by those seen,
Flushing their own future down the drain.
While censoring the truth and reality,
Of their own participation.
To delude their lack of common sense.
Gone and left to leave,
As proof and evidence of it!
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQLRSTUVEWXYZ1 T2 BL3 4 MZ |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010011 010101 1010111 1010111111 11010 111101 1110001 101011 1011 010011010101 111011101 1000111 010110011101 101100100 0011010001101 11001 11010101 010100100 11010110 11001010011 101111010 1011001010010 1101 11111010 110101011 10010010100 11110 100111 111111100 101001100100 01001111 101110101 110001010 1110010 101111101 10111 11010011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,204 |
Words | 236 |
Sentences | 21 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 37 |
Lines Amount | 37 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 954 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 200 |
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