Analysis of Criminal Allegiance
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Call it...
Contributor.
Accomplice.
Or...
Excuse what is done,
Not to be one directly involved.
However...
Associating with anyone who believes,
They are the dip, chips.
And delicious to the taste cheese.
Given entitlement rights,
To steal, deceive, lie and cheat.
In an alternate Universe to do,
Whatever they choose when they please.
As if they had been emaculately born.
Untouchable and out of reach.
This...
To follow and consciously allow,
Has its awakening.
The jaw dropping kind.
An allegiance like this to support,
With a blinded endorsement to give it.
Can be brick wall stunning when it hits.
And...
No different than cheerleaders.
Doing their routines on the sidelines.
Stirring up the crowd.
Encouraging them.
Along with those,
On the field of corruption for a win to get.
By any means necessary.
To bring home that bacon.
Regardless,
If they had not been the players.
Since remain they all do,
Accessories to the crime!
'You admit,
A giving of your support? Right?'
'And, encouraged to have known,
What the game played was all about?'
'You even financed their activities?'
'Yes or no!'
'Yet you claim of having no knowledge,
Of what they were doing...
From the very beginning,
Until the authorities arrived.'
'That's correct!
We thought them to be,
The opposing team.'
'They were.
They still are.
And that is why...
You and the others,
Are being arrested and going to prison!'
'For clarity purposes.
Do you mind putting that in writing?
Some of us take pride,
In keeping our records...
And files up to date.'
'We were counting on your pride,
Not to disappoint us.
Why is it do crooks,
Bluster, gloat and boast...
About their misdeeding activities?
As if it's in their D.N.A.
Scheme | ABCXDXBXXEXXFEXX XXGXXAX XHXXXXXIDCH FX AX XX E X XGGX XIX BXXHD XGJXX JCXXEX |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (42%) |
Metre | 11 0100 010 1 01111 111101001 10 0100110101 11011 00101011 1001001 1101101 011001011 1011111 1111111 01000111 1 110010001 110100 01101 101011101 1010010111 111110111 0 1100110 10101101 10101 01001 0111 101101010111 1101100 111110 010 11111010 101111 0100101 101 01011011 0010111 10111101 1100110100 111 111110110 111010 1010010 010010001 101 11111 00101 10 111 0111 10010 110010010110 1100100 111101010 11111 0101001 01111 1010111 11011 11111 10101 01110100 1110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,668 |
Words | 307 |
Sentences | 57 |
Stanzas | 13 |
Stanza Lengths | 16, 7, 11, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1, 4, 3, 5, 5, 6 |
Lines Amount | 65 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 99 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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