Analysis of Democracy

Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)



None of their political arguments,
Debated in opposition heated.
Is about democracy at all.
Or how it has been,
Documented into rules and laws.
It is the image and face of it.
That has become,
An embarrassment.
To their delusions embraced.
Revealing to be a United States,
Of America.
More ethnic and diverse.
Leaving many faithfully deluded,
Incapable to accept the truth...
Of facts and evidence produced.
Not to fraud, hoodwinked or dupe.
Or continue to manipulate,
Minds relieved to fiction...
Upon a marketing of escapism!
This has little to do,
With how democracy...
To enjoy and live as is,
Documented.

The conflicts.
Division.
And racist attitudes,
Is all about the 'image.'
And how that image reflects...
An interpretation that represents it,
Best!


Scheme XAXXXBCXXXXXXXXXXDCXXXA XDXXXBX
Poetic Form Tetractys  (30%)
Etheree  (23%)
Metre 1110100100 010001010 101010011 11111 10001101 110100111 1101 10100 1101001 0101100101 10100 110001 1010100010 010010101 11010001 111111 10101010 101110 0101001010 111011 110100 1010111 100 001 010 01010 1101010 0111001 100101011 1
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 729
Words 124
Sentences 20
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 23, 7
Lines Amount 30
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 297
Words per stanza (avg) 62
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