Analysis of Representing Unique Qualities
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
One has to be blessed to witness,
Seasons, moods and attitudes...
Change quicker than a model.
Hired to prance up and down,
A lit catwalk.
Thin as a rail to introduce fashions.
No one can afford on urban streets.
Or be seated next to someone,
Only the elite amongst themselves...
Know to be,
Representing unique qualities.
However...
Left resting on shores,
In an alternate Universe.
Are detached minds.
Light years away.
Too distant for the Hubble Telescope,
To detect.
A reality that serves humanity.
Or...
A crumbling infrastructure.
Oh No!
The Heavens know this to be a no-no!
Since this to attend,
Is not a fad to exchange pretensions.
Pretensions emulated to imitate,
By those less fortunate.
Also caught up,
Into ignoring the reality...
Of a quality of life.
Left to leave these decisions to make,
To those who are skilled...
In the performing of flushing toilets.
And gathering in groups to announce,
For all the media to see and hear...
Their latest incompetent movement,
Towards the bottom to prove...
How they perceive what power is,
To achieve and acquire it to maintain!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111110 101010 1101010 1011101 011 110110110 111011101 1110111 100010101 111 01001100 10 11011 0110010 1011 1101 110101010 101 010110100 1 0100010 11 0101111011 11101 1101101010 010100110 111100 1011 01010010 1010011 111101011 11111 0001011010 010001101 1101001101 110010010 0101011 11011101 10100101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,045 |
Words | 183 |
Sentences | 26 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 11, 12, 4, 12 |
Lines Amount | 39 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 211 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 46 |
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