Analysis of Potency
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
It has to be the potency.
Of a drug in secret mixed.
And fed to feed amongst the ones,
Pledging a loyalty to a 'clique' fixed...
On a power to get.
Laid on top of a brick wall.
Planned without a strategy.
Or a net that catches,
Anyone standing tall.
Who may fall off the wall.
Since bluster to blow,
Presents little if any competition...
To an unexpected blowing wind.
Although...
Those flying high,
In imagined cloudless skies.
Determined this sensation,
Soars to ignore the ramifications...
Of a destination that hits,
Their heads against every brick.
Are too numbed to overcome,
A flight intended...
May not be the one meant.
Yet...
The more their heads hit bricks,
They appear and seem...
Convinced.
That wall of power to obtain,
Prevents others from doing the same.
And makes them jealous.
Jealous they have not been invited,
To split their heads open wide.
Exposing...
Nothing inside.
But an emptiness to delude,
A power to hold onto exclusively.
Done.
With this to prove,
A blinding self destruction...
Has tremendous benefits.
Among those chosen.
To leave few left to dispute or argue.
After witnessing,
Such power to have it...
Neither has them awed,
Jealous with envy nor breathless!
'Never will there be an ever,
Will we allow you...
To reach the power we have achieved!'
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110100 1010101 01110101 1001001011 101011 1111011 1010100 101110 10101 111101 11011 1010110010 11010101 1 1101 0010101 0101010 110100010 1001011 11011001 111110 01010 111011 1 011111 10101 01 11110101 011011001 01110 101111010 1111101 010 1001 11100101 01011100100 1 1111 0101010 1010100 01110 1111101110 10100 110111 10111 10110110 10111110 11011 110101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,240 |
Words | 222 |
Sentences | 35 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 13, 10, 13, 10, 3 |
Lines Amount | 49 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 198 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 44 |
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