Analysis of You Can't
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
There's no defense against an ignorance.
Supported followed.
There's no defense against ignorance.
You can't,
Renew what has been done.
You can't,
Shine brighter than the Sun.
The only thing a fool can prove,
Is stay to prove a fool to do.
You can't,
Rebuild humanity.
You can't,
Refresh the air to breathe.
You can't,
Have power more than God.
With the weapons you have got.
You can't,
Assume a victory.
Perceived to have before you see,
Everyone you still deceive...
Now regret you brought them only grief!
Deflating narcissism kept you keep!
Defeating lies you told to tell believed.
With sharing sorrows.
Now and tomorrow.
Defeating escalating your grief.
More!
Defeating escalating your grief.
Shared with them borrowed.
More!
And this you can't undo to bring peace.
Gone.
And this you can't undo to bring peace.
Lost.
By you.
And at a high cost too!
There's no defense against ignorance.
Sold.
There's no defense against ignorance.
Bought.
There's no defense against ignorance.
Supported and it followed.
There's no defense against ignorance.
Shared.
There's no defense against ignorance.
With grief to share and more to borrow...
Pain and sorrows kept to keep.
Now and tomorrow.
Pain and sorrows kept to keep.
Shared.
Pain and sorrows kept to keep!
Kept to keep.
With no relief.
To know it gone.
To know it gone!
From where it once belonged.
No one can undo what's gone,
Wrong!
No one can undo.
No one undo.
No one undo.
A sharing of pain,
To think it won't remain.
Sustained!
Scheme | abA CdCdxe CfCxCxg Cffxh i xxJHKHbK LmLxee AxAgAbANAjIJINIihMMx mxeEEoox |
---|---|
Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101011100 01010 110101100 11 011111 11 110101 01010111 11110111 11 010100 11 010111 11 110111 1010111 11 010100 01110111 101101 101111101 010100111 0101111101 11010 1001 01010011 1 01010011 1111 1 011101111 1 011101111 1 11 010111 110101100 1 110101100 1 110101100 0100110 110101100 1 110101100 11110111 1010111 1001 1010111 1 1010111 111 1101 1111 1111 111101 1110111 1 11101 1101 1101 01011 111101 01 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,496 |
Words | 325 |
Sentences | 54 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 6, 7, 5, 1, 8, 6, 20, 8 |
Lines Amount | 64 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 127 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
Font size:
Citation
Use the citation below to add this poem analysis to your bibliography:
Style:MLAChicagoAPA
"You Can't" Poetry.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 20 May 2024. <https://www.poetry.com/poem-analysis/172512/you-can%27t>.
Discuss this Lawrence S. Pertillar poem analysis with the community:
Report Comment
We're doing our best to make sure our content is useful, accurate and safe.
If by any chance you spot an inappropriate comment while navigating through our website please use this form to let us know, and we'll take care of it shortly.
Attachment
You need to be logged in to favorite.
Log In