Analysis of Understanding To Comprehend
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Understanding to comprehend,
Voices heard...
From each side of a dividing fence.
Build cemented,
Over years of unmoveable stubbornness.
Takes a slow process started that begins,
Chipping away those blocks carried...
On cold shoulders.
Placed there over decades frozen.
Without a hint of them thawing,
Anytime soon to melt away.
Since throughout generations,
Such fences to build them...
From a past to have long gone.
Yet remain as they are to stay.
Represents an unwillingness to listen...
To whomever that may be on the other side,
Saying it to claim...
On either side of one fence built,
Developed from an age old ignorance.
And no one is benefitting to refuse,
The using of common sense.
Just to keep a fence,
Built between them...
To remain and stay as is.
Without reason to make understood,
Why this should represent...
Their ancestors' wishes.
Not have knowledge at all,
As to where to wood came from.
Who chopped it then to paint the fence.
Without mentioning to hear this done,
By those 'others' they prefer...
Kept to stay in their places,
And away from where they don't belong.
'We deserve back our mules.
And at least 40 acres of land apiece!'
'Do you hear that nonsense?
And not a document do they have,
To prove with evidence...
Of what they are demanding to receive!
Some people can't seem to appreciate,
What we do from them to have it done.
What on this Earth is the World coming to?
Peasants, beggars and immigrants.
Everywhere to see them panhandling?
This craze and madness,
Has become outrageous!
The nerve and unmitigated gall of it all!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010101 101 111100101 1010 10111100 101110101 10011110 1110 11100110 01011110 1011101 101010 110111 1011111 10111111 0110100110 101011110101 10111 11011111 0101111100 01111000101 0101101 11101 1011 1010111 01101101 11101 11010 111011 1111111 11111101 011001111 1110101 1110110 001111101 1011101 011101101 111110 010100111 111100 1111010101 110111010 111111111 1111101101 10100100 1011110 11010 101010 01001001111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,562 |
Words | 320 |
Sentences | 33 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 35, 2, 7, 5 |
Lines Amount | 49 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 304 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 67 |
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