Analysis of Witnessed To Observe
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
It has been heard to hear repeatedly.
And observed to see it,
As open as it appears to be.
Yet people who continue,
To remain socially illiterate.
And defend their inability to sit and learn,
Anything at all about life as is to live it.
Yet can not tell the difference,
Between fiction and reality.
With games to play and lies to tell.
Done to clown around.
To then claim themselves,
Of being down to Earth.
Heard to hear their dilemmas to face,
On a daily basis.
Has been the cause of others,
Unconcerned about the quality of life.
They choose to live.
Then argue loudly to say,
To have been victimized...
By choices self inflicted to have made!
Observed to see and heard to hear,
From one generation to the next to expect...
Opportunities given.
No one is prepared to accept.
Or create for themselves.
In places where fiction to live it.
And truth heard to hear it is denied!
'Why is that?'
'Lack of discipline.
Lack of self respect to give or accept.
And a lack of paying attention,
To the ones who have experienced...
Ignorance and multiple years,
Of ignoring the effects of it.'
'By who, whom or what?'
'By those who assume,
Benefits to them will come...
Easily to achieve this done successfully.
With it to see,
Their quality of life slowly fading away.
Right before their lieing to deny,
Their own deceiving eyes!
By whom or what you ask?
The who, whom or what,
Trust that a reliving the past...
To already have had.
Is a much better future.
If everyone agrees,
What was had would be valued...
With painted murals,
Planted flowers to rejuvenate what could be.
Would bring back the people who left,
To come back and rejoice...
How remarkable a delusion has been,
Smothered to cover up!'
'That's a negative assessment.'
'From whose point of view?
Reality to appreciate,
The truth of it for what it is?
Has gone and nowhere near to accept.
Or expected here to come and visit.
Anytime soon.'
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Metre | 1111110100 001111 110110111 1101010 1011000100 001101001101 101101111111 11110100 0110010 11110111 11101 11101 110111 111101011 101010 1101110 0101010011 1111 1101011 111100 1101010111 01110111 11010101101 010010 11101101 101101 010110111 011111101 111 11100 1110111101 001110010 101110100 10001001 101000111 11111 11101 1001111 100101110100 1111 110011101001 10111101 110101 111111 01111 11001001 101011 1011010 11001 1111110 11010 10101010111 11101011 111001 10100001011 101101 10100010 11111 101010 01111111 11011101 1010111010 101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,902 |
Words | 412 |
Sentences | 44 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 18, 7, 1, 6, 1, 20, 1, 6 |
Lines Amount | 63 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 162 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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