Analysis of Pain To Feel Meant
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Not often is a pain to feel it meant,
Forgotten unremembered.
As to who did it done.
Or the name of the ones,
Intending it to remain to stay that way.
No matter what is felt to go around,
Is sent to come back.
From generation to the next.
Decade after decade.
Year after year.
Day in and day out.
As if to celebrate the unexplainable.
Like...
For what reason and why,
Something starts to find time...
To do whatever it is,
Because it has become a way of life to live it!
'If the body naturally cleans and cures itself.
Why is it people attempt to prevent this done.
By seeking remedies to believe,
Themselves to be garbage cans.
Putting more garbage into themselves?'
'Oh?
So what are you?
One of those,
Turn the other cheek vegetarians?'
'That makes no sense at all!'
'The pot calling the kettle black!'
'I am neither a bigot nor a racist.'
'If you don't want the barbecue,
Don't ruin the picnic for everybody!
No one here wants to hear you lecture,
About who does what repeatedly to do...
To make them mentally and physically sick.
Doing the best they can to ignore your B.S.'
'Perhaps that's how the pain to feel meant,
Started in the first place.'
'No.
That pain to feel meant,
Was invited by those...
Who couldn't keep their mouths close.'
'My sentiments exactly.
What goes in often stays to no one's benefit,
At all!'
'You can say that again.
But don't.
Just pass the ribs and the sauce.
Thank you!'
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Metre | 1101011111 0101 111111 101101 01011011111 1101111101 11111 1010101 011001 1101 10011 1111000100 1 111001 101111 111011 0111010111111 1010100010101 111100110111 110100101 0111101 101100101 1 1111 111 101010100 111111 01100101 11100101010 1111010 110011100 111111110 01111010011 111100010001 10011110111 011101111 100011 1 11111 101011 1101111 1100010 110101111100 11 111101 11 1101001 11 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,415 |
Words | 319 |
Sentences | 38 |
Stanzas | 11 |
Stanza Lengths | 17, 5, 4, 1, 1, 1, 6, 2, 4, 3, 4 |
Lines Amount | 48 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 97 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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