Analysis of Smothered Under Fiction
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
What is it that keeps,
Many kept believing.
Immigrants representing,
The ethnic identities of ancestors who came...
To a land centuries ago.
With a doing to contribute,
Their skills and expertise to a country...
Without their participation,
Would not experience the greatness.
Today, the World over, once knew to know,
Greater than all others.
Yet now declared enemies.
By the very ones doing nothing but leech.
Sitting nolonger secretly,
Spreading lies to deceive...
The reality of who actually built a country.
Done to have this fact,
Rewritten to create a fictioned way of life...
Ignoring the truth deluded to believe.
Leaving them,
Effectively smothered under fiction.
Preparing to weaponized and defend,
Their right to destroy...
Themselves and lies told to lose their minds.
Intended and meant to do successfully.
By those they follow and support.
Endorsing an image they've been convinced...
Immigrants of a different ethnic appearance,
Have come to cross a border.
With a doing to have it claimed,
Them to be a threat to a way of life.
Those in positions of leadership,
Feasting to greed...
Between themselves exclusively.
Hoping their activities will stay unrevealed.
As to who are the enemies,
Actually destroying a way of life.
Because of an image entirely fictioned.
Yet refuse to accept this fiction to delude!
'They...
Will not replace us!'
'To who or whom do you refer?
It can not be those,
You rely upon to entertain you.
Or the ones who control,
Every aspect of a way of life...
You have come to enjoy.
How about those who not only,
Own and control the media.
The banking system.
Plant and grow the food you eat.
Make and build the cars you drive.
To then disrespect them.
Call negative names.
Just who are 'They' you depend upon,
You say will not replace you?
To have done it to allow you to keep,
This...'Image?'
Without you to have given them credit!'
An image without other races to mention,
More patriotic than those who pose...
As patriots.
Yet...
Only have contributed,
Division, chaos, bigotry and racism!'
'Well...
At least our concerns are being represented!'
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111 101010 100010 010010011011 10110001 10101010 110011010 0110010 110100010 0101101111 101110 1101100 10101101011 101100 101101 010111001010 11111 01010101111 01001010101 101 0100101010 01011001 11101 010111111 01001110100 11110001 0101101101 1001010010010 1111010 10101111 1110110111 10010110 1011 01010100 1010100111 11110100 1000100111 01111001001 101101110101 1 1111 11111101 11111 101011011 101101 100110111 111101 10111110 10010100 01010 1010111 1010111 11011 11001 111110101 111111 1111101111 110 0111110110 110011010110 10101111 1100 1 1010100 01010100010 1 111001110010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 2,093 |
Words | 424 |
Sentences | 49 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 11, 8, 20, 2, 13, 11, 2 |
Lines Amount | 67 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 233 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 50 |
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Written on December 19, 2023
Submitted by lpahtillah on December 19, 2023
Modified by lpahtillah on December 19, 2023
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