Analysis of Laxativity

Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)



Whether your loyalty to commit stays,
To the left or right.
Declaring your liberal or conservative ways.

Whether your political affiliation,
Is democratic or republican.
On the fence to convince,
Others you have independent thoughts.
All of us remain human beings.
With appetites sought to please our needs.

It takes cleansing the body.
To rid the waste of collected toxins.
Not thoroughly eliminated.
Restoring one's mind to find it clearer.
If it was a priority to understand this,
Understood.
The body and mind is not a garbage can.
Dumping into it anything.
Without examining,
What we do to ourselves.
To inspect like we should.

Every now and then time should be taken,
To connect our aches and pains...
With what contains in the food we eat.
And why it is we crave poisons.
Addicting ourselves to create diseases.
Diseases to cure with prescribed medications.

Many these days do not realize,
Our minds are no different...
Than an engine inside a vehicle.
The outside may look great when polished.
Yet if the engine stays ignored,
A rusting begins.
Until that beauty becomes demolished.

Programmed we are,
To take our garbage to the curb.
Awaiting for our waste to be removed.
And yet...
Few will have that much insight,
To cleanse their minds and bodies that way.
Believing what they consume,
That may be tastefully delicious.
To stay without eliminating.
Could be the main reason,
People these days consider their crazy ways...
As normal!


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Poetic Form
Metre 1011001011 10111 0101100101001 10101000010 101010100 101101 10110101 111011010 110111101 1110010 1101101010 11000100 0101111110 111001001011 01 01001110101 1001110 010100 1111001 101111 10010111110 10110101 110100111 01111110 010001101010 01011101010 10111110 10111100 1110010100 011111110 11010101 01001 0111001010 111 111010101 01011011101 01 111111 111101011 0101101 111100010 11010100 110110 10110101101 110
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,400
Words 242
Sentences 33
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 3, 6, 11, 6, 7, 12
Lines Amount 45
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 192
Words per stanza (avg) 40
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Submitted by lpahtillah on June 18, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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