Analysis of Soapbox

Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)



No one assigned,
To stand upon a soapbox.
Just to jaw drop.
Without an agenda.
Specific and definitive.

These are not those times for B.S. players.
Displaying a rehearsed,
Performance to entertain unchanged routines.
Too serious are these days found to find,
Many forced to accept reality.
With a hunting them down,
To remove the blindfolds of truth to fiction.

And...
If it takes screaming from a soapbox,
To snap unconscious minds awake.
From beliefs,
People have been made to chase delusions.
Yet afraid to face truth as is.
This not to see it,
Is a fiction of their willing to follow...
Gifted sweet talkers.
Quick to walk away from lies they tell to sell.
Leaving the people,
Habitually addicted...
To whatever feeds their kept falsities verified.


Scheme ABXXX CXXAXXX XBXXXXXXCXXXX
Poetic Form Tetractys  (32%)
Metre 1101 110101 1111 011010 01000100 111111110 010001 0101010101 1100111111 10110110 101011 1010111110 0 11110101 1110101 101 1011111010 10111111 11111 10101110110 10110 11101111111 10010 01000010 110111110
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 728
Words 128
Sentences 19
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 5, 7, 13
Lines Amount 25
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 198
Words per stanza (avg) 42
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Submitted by lpahtillah on June 08, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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