Analysis of Insults
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
No longer am I,
Among the ones to tell others...
What to kiss and where to go.
No!
I use that energy,
For other things these days.
When I began to discover,
More were seeking to be insulted.
As if this they sought to happen.
Curious I became as to why?
I am no Einstein.
To understand all that I should.
Why...
I would think.
Would people,
These mentally challenged days...
Seek to want to be insulted?
And then...
It dawned on me.
So many grew up,
From children to adulthood.
With no attention to get.
Some begging,
To be physically abused.
Seriously.
That I have seen.
Becoming empathetic.
With the parents being dared.
And children prepared,
To dial 9-1-1.
And here I am.
Appearing as if,
I enjoy being irritated.
Aggravated and awaiting.
To say what's on my mind.
Anytime of the day.
With it known I would tell,
Whoever it is...
What to kiss and where to go.
To not disappoint attention seekers.
Left to wonder,
Why they would smile.
After leaving me,
Foaming at the mouth.
Too out of breath to keep shouting.
Now...
No more of that.
I scare myself,
Being pleasant to everyone,
These days.
I smile and say hello.
Even to the people I don't know.
To get returned from some,
Looks of suspicion.
And...
Away from me quick they move too.
As if I had insulted them!
God?
I know You do Your 'thing'...
In the most mysterious of ways.
But...
Where were You?
When I needed to learn this lesson,
Much earlier!
Years ago.
I would not have had,
These pains and aches.
So...
Prematurely and at my age,
To experience them.
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (33%) Etheree (31%) |
Metre | 11011 01011110 1110111 1 111100 110111 11011010 101011010 11111110 100101111 11110 1011111 1 111 110 1100101 11111010 01 1111 11011 110101 1101011 110 11100001 1000 1111 010010 1010101 01001 110 0111 01011 10110100 1000010 111111 10101 111111 01011 1110111 110101010 1110 1111 10101 10101 11111110 1 1111 111 1010110 11 110101 101010111 110111 11010 0 01111111 11110101 1 111111 001010011 1 101 111011110 1100 101 11111 1101 1 0100111 101001 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,444 |
Words | 280 |
Sentences | 53 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 5, 13, 10, 5, 12, 13 |
Lines Amount | 70 |
Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 142 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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