Analysis of Welcome To Malaise
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Welcome to Malaise.
The land where people feel...
An indefinite discomfort.
A dazed generic kind of illness.
And a lack of well-being.
Brought about by too much stagnation.
With lives lived mediocre,
Boring and repetitiously mundane.
Welcome to Malaise.
Where the people are seen,
Entertaining themselves.
By a normalcy becoming more dysfunctional.
Yet no one claims,
Insanity accepted...
Is the way this game to survive is played.
Sun up and Sun down,
Where those freely expose themselves crazed.
In Malaise.
Gone is consciousness.
And common sense thought worthless.
No longer valued to use done to do it.
Or prioritize to prove in Malaise this exists.
Since in Malaise everyone expects,
Incompetent leadership...
To select and represent,
The best of their ignorance that reflects...
Their wants and needs to remain and stay,
Left as they are with a caring less...
If everyone living,
Around them in other towns...
Have discovered the Earth is not flat.
Nor are they the center of the Universe.
And shocking as it is,
It is the Earth that rotates.
While orbiting to do this done,
Around the Sun!
Welcome to Malaise.
Where the people continue to disbelieve,
Power to rule and control what others do...
No human being alive,
Can re-create God...
To portray themselves to be more powerful.
Although convinced they have become,
Movies to fiction.
Validates their lives to prove...
They are rulers of this Universe.
And others too.
Whenever those movies are made.
With dates to release and evidence of proof!
Welcome to Malaise.
Where it is easy to have people believe,
They are not crazed.
But could be eccentric prophets.
Descendents of deities as they've been told!
And confirmed to see for themselves,
On their outings to bigger cities.
To gaze at traffic lights to wonder,
Why cars stop when the light turns red.
And begin to move,
When the light turns green.
As a crowd begins to gather in awe.
To finally see the 'aliens'.
Looking no different in appearance.
Although strange they are.
When in an advance progressive civilization!
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (22%) |
Metre | 10101 011101 10100010 010101110 0011110 101111010 111010 100101 10101 101011 01001 1010001010100 1111 0100010 1011110111 11011 111001011 001 11100 0101110 11010111111 101011001101 10011001 010010 101001 0111100101 110110101 111110101 11010 0110101 101001111 1110101010 010111 110111 11001111 0101 10101 10100101001 10110011101 1101001 11011 10101111100 1011101 10110 101111 11101110 0101 01011011 11101010011 10101 11110111001 1111 11101010 01011001111 00111101 111011010 111101110 11110111 00111 10111 1010111001 110010100 1011000010 1111 101010100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 2,041 |
Words | 408 |
Sentences | 48 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 10, 18, 6, 7, 16 |
Lines Amount | 65 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 268 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 57 |
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