Analysis of Outside The We-Dom
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Outside and nowhere on maps to appear.
Is the we-dom.
An exclusive united Kingdom.
Only the elite,
Come and go.
No one knows beyond themselves.
Who pulls the strings and controls.
Those they pick to choose,
To perform and do what they say...
And obey the rules to protect their interests.
By any means necessary.
With decisions they make.
Done to follow whatever they wish,
Introduced to create.
Celebrate they do,
Inside or outside their private we-dom.
In a we-dom to do done.
Behind or beyond closed to open doors.
Nobody knows who they are to identify.
And this is meant to implement,
A doing to please them most.
While they donate, endorse and support,
Whomever they select done to pledge...
An allegiance, devotion and loyalty.
Regardless of political or religious affiliation.
It is the we-dom and no one else...
Who receives from the elite we-dom that gets,
To sit at the pinnacle of leadership.
With those lower in class and status had,
Will never come to know...
Why those they elected to vote as leaders.
Are no different than a sneeze,
Believed heard to hear...
From an entertainment puppet.
Actually comes from a hidden puppeteer.
Pulling the strings behind the scenes.
Suffering with allergies.
Including the dust,
Coming from home-made wooden puppets!
From wooden puppets.
Taken out of a box to perform.
Outside the We-Dom to do done!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110111101 1011 101001010 10001 101 1110101 1101001 11111 10101111 00101101110 1101100 101011 11101011 01101 1011 0111111011 0011111 0110111101 111111010 01111100 0101111 11101001 010101111 10100100100 0101010010100010 110110111 10110011111 1110100110 1110010101 110111 11101011110 11100101 01111 1101010 10011010001 10010101 1001100 01001 101111010 11010 101101101 11011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,350 |
Words | 271 |
Sentences | 32 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 14, 28 |
Lines Amount | 42 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 530 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 115 |
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