Analysis of Irrelevant Testimonies
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Irrelevant to hear testimonies.
Heard to express,
The emptiness of significance addressed.
While remaining a sustained dancing around,
A continuing pouring fuel upon a duel.
With a doing to make more excuses.
Of threats to fear of being replaced.
By others wanting to wish and have,
Their lives to live peacefully.
As they choose to do it and celebrate.
Yet observed to witness taking steps,
Are those deciding it would be best...
To prevent a non-existing civil unrest.
Provoked.
Before the worst of it to delude and fiction,
Becomes a reality as advised predicted.
By prophets using tarot cards.
And their polished crystal balls.
Reviewing the past already lived to have had.
But...
Followed by many,
Living to wish...
A reliving the past that nolonger exists.
Will eliminate their threats and fears,
Of a future yet to come.
If they now take steps to censor,
What they suspect will occur.
That which has not happened yet.
Although best it would be,
If they all today agree to stay proactive.
Unconsciously.
With a taking control,
Of a future they've been told...
They alone can and could survive,
Living independently.
Done to do as an untested experiment!
'And this choice to choose,
You believe will become successful?'
'Of course!
Weren't the first pioneers,
Who set about roaming unchartered seas...
Discovered to find themselves,
Arriving upon lands.
Not to know they would be teachers,
Of those native born.
How to become better human beings?
We and not them are the history makers!'
'Where is the relevance of this?'
'Relevance?
These are facts from our perspective!'
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (24%) |
Metre | 010011100 1101 01001010001 10100011001 00100101001010 1010111010 11111101 110101101 1111100 111111010 101110101 11101111 101010101001 01 010111101010 01010101010 1101011 0110101 010010101111 1 10110 1011 0010011101 10101101 1010111 11111110 1101101 1111101 11111 111010111110 100 101001 1010111 10110101 100100 111110100100 01111 101101010 11 100101 1101100101 0101101 010011 11111110 11101 1101101010 10111010010 11010011 100 111110010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,583 |
Words | 318 |
Sentences | 36 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 9, 17, 2, 9, 1, 2 |
Lines Amount | 50 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 178 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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