Analysis of Pass Me Not
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Pass me not,
As a replica of you to view.
To portray and display,
Anything you do I can too!
I am not a copy of your negative ways.
Nor have I yet to try,
Denial to live it lieing to myself.
From day to day.
Call me a rebel, maverick or nonconformist.
Even those depictions,
Are not suitable to have them fit.
Yet I do admit,
My charading to masquerade...
In those costumes made me sick of it.
I am a positive reflection,
Of past mistakes I have made.
With a doing to evaluate,
The why and when I had been afraid to be me.
Then I began to listen to pay attention,
To others blindly enslaved.
Understanding more to comprehend,
I am not them.
Alone in a direction best for me to begin.
For whatever the reason,
I stopped my attempts...
To be approved and accepted.
By those parading their pretentions.
I began to reject,
Following behind those who allowed...
Themselves to remain on a narrow path.
Crowded by naysayers without faith to keep.
Yet stayed on a path exquisitely crafted.
Not even a few could see,
Beyond a deceiving...
Falsely decorated to create,
An alternate reality.
That would ultimately leave them at the end,
Disbelieving tricks for them to treat.
Would appease their anticipations.
Nowhere were there promises made at all.
Only sorrows to share together.
And regrettable grief.
To divide and fight themselves.
Over who deserves to get what is left,
Of a fiction to delude it.
With a selishness kept to keep,
Defended and by all mean kept protected.
But...
What were they protecting?
And who inherited,
A nothing there left to defend!?
Pass me not,
As a replica of you to view.
To portray and display,
Anything you do I can too!
You had at one time,
Called and depicted me...
As a rebel.
A maverick.
A nonconforming fool.
Back then I refused,
Those comments about me made.
But today?
I can only say...
I thank God to have been made this way!
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (32%) |
Metre | 111 101001111 101001 1011111 111010111001 111111 010111111 1111 110101001010 101010 111001111 11101 11101 010111111 110100010 1101111 10101010 010111101111 110111011010 1101001 0101101 1111 0100010111101 110010 11101 11010010 1101011 101101 100011101 0110110101 1011001111 1110110010 1100111 010010 10100101 110010 11100011101 001011111 10110010 101100111 101011010 001001 1010101 1010111111 10101011 101111 01001111010 1 101010 010100 01011101 111 101001111 101001 1011111 11111 100101 1010 0100 011 11101 1100111 101 11101 111111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,870 |
Words | 415 |
Sentences | 44 |
Stanzas | 12 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 6, 4, 5, 9, 4, 11, 4, 4, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 65 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 120 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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