Analysis of With Eyes And Ears

Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)



So blessed,
Many of us are.
To have eyes to see.
With ears to hear.
And...
Given the opportunity,
Of receiving something to learn.
As an experience to share,
Together.
Being made aware of it.

The mouth is there,
As if an option to use.
To open and close.
With a nourishing our minds.
Done to flourish it and nourish.
And kept closed.
At the appropriate times.

However...
Ears to have,
And blessed with to get.
Are always there opened.
To hear whenever we wish,
Something to learn.
Coming in to both of them.

Although...
For whatever the reason,
God has created...
A choice for us to choose,
When to open our eyes or close.
And feet to use.
To either run or walk away,
From those incapable...
Or unable to understand it done,
When that time to them comes...
To appropriately keep shut,
Their mouths.
Listening with ears to hear,
And eyes kept opened wide...
With this opportunity given,
To learn 'something'...
That may or may not,
Be to them significant then!
Yet...
The experience of it,
Will one day come around...
Finding this found,
To have been beneficial.
Knowing never to doubt,
What it is God does to do!


Scheme XXABCADEFG EHIXJXX FXKCJDX XLXXIHXMLXXXBXLXXXKGNNMXX
Poetic Form
Metre 11 10111 11111 1111 0 1000100 10101011 11010011 010 1010111 0111 1111011 11001 10100101 11101010 011 1001001 10 111 01111 11110 1101011 1011 1001111 1 110010 11010 011111 111010111 0111 11011101 110100 101010111 111111 10100011 11 1001111 011101 11010010 1110 11111 11101001 1 0010011 111101 1011 111010 101011 1111111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 1,064
Words 201
Sentences 32
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 10, 7, 7, 25
Lines Amount 49
Letters per line (avg) 17
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 210
Words per stanza (avg) 50
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Submitted by lpahtillah on April 23, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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