Analysis of Dim Lit Wits
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Dimming dimmer dim lit wits.
To have risen to positions to switch,
Off the current that provides...
That light preventing,
A complete darkening...
Into valleys of ignorance.
Believed by those,
Aging with gaslight minds...
They can and will thrive,
A maintaining of dispositions...
Remaining on a vine of archaic,
Dumbdownness.
And the best of it deception can find!
Barbaric rock throwers.
Slinging missiles made from mud.
Corrupted thugs.
Stopping the advantages,
To enhance...
Their own advancement.
With dramatic bomb dropping,
Stupidity.
Anywhere to applaud,
A mind ending unconscious victory.
Everywhere it seems they dream,
To poison themselves.
Feasting a feeding,
On racism and conflict.
Division, chaos and havoc to have it.
Craved!
Blind and can not see,
There is no benefit received...
To them that comes,
Performing to undo...
A doing done,
That has kept their way of life...
Protected with entitlements. Documented to cement them.
Or...
A diversity wished to extinguish,
The face and color of it.
Stopped!
To allow the continuance,
Of a mindset fictioned to delude...
Truth for what it is to be.
Stalked to halt.
By any means possible.
To have an image,
Worshipped and idolized.
Memorialized in movies.
Or on wide TV screens seen.
Dimming dimmer,
Dim lit wits.
Burning away quicker,
Than a flame melting wax...
On candlestick minds.
Worthless to blind,
That light unplugged...
From a lifeline of their own,
Survival to condone it.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010111 1110101011 1010101 11010 001100 01101100 0111 101101 11011 00101010 0101011010 1 0011101011 010110 1010111 0101 1000100 101 11010 1010110 0100 10101 011010100 101111 11001 10010 110010 01010010111 1 10111 11110001 1111 010101 0101 1111111 010101001001011 1 0010011010 0101011 1 10100100 1011101 1111111 111 1101100 11110 10010 0100010 1111111 1010 111 100110 101101 1101 1011 1101 101111 0101011 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,387 |
Words | 231 |
Sentences | 39 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 13, 10, 13, 13, 9 |
Lines Amount | 58 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 226 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 46 |
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