Analysis of Left To Leave Not To Guess
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Not a minute did you wait,
For me to hesitate and come...
With my shoulder.
To lay your weary head upon.
While patiently listening to you,
Complain about others.
What they did or did not do.
In ways to please your expectations.
And...
Not a word did I hear you ask,
If I needed from you comfort too!
This...
Either I misunderstood.
Did not comprehend.
Or...
Happened so often,
I took the act of it for granted.
Yet...
Not to misunderstand,
There I had and have been for you.
I can not count the number of times,
Stopping to drop,
Whatever it was I did.
Without a thought of it to do.
Although...
This to expect I don't from you.
But I have heard from others to say,
It is me who selfishly...
Will look the other way.
Thinking of myself.
And no one else to express concern.
To leave me left not to guess,
As to who it was to have that believed!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010111 1111001 1110 11110101 110010011 010110 1111111 01111010 0 10111111 111011101 1 101001 1101 1 10110 110111110 1 11001 11101111 111101011 1011 101111 01011111 1 11011111 111111011 11111 110101 1011 011110101 1111111 1111111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 811 |
Words | 164 |
Sentences | 24 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 9, 7, 7, 2 |
Lines Amount | 33 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 126 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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