Analysis of People Who Don't Listen
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
To the people who won't listen,
What more can be said?
What more can be said.
What more can be said!
To those people who can't listen,
What more can be said,
Knowing they don't listen anyway.
Close your mouth.
And keep it shut.
To people who don't listen,
Even when to them you cuss.
Give up.
And keep your mouth shut.
Knowing people don't hear what is said.
To people who don't listen,
What more can be said?
That stays in their heads.
Filled with space and no air.
To people who don't listen,
With eyes fixed to stare.
Know that emptiness is all that's there,
To share.
Throw your hands up.
And begin from them to walk away.
Save yourself from going crazy.
Know when you've had enough.
Dont pay a price, not yours to pay.
To make appointments with a doctor.
To people who don't listen,
What more can be said?
What more can be said.
What more can be said!
To those people who can't listen,
To a word that's been said...
Get up.
And close your mouth to leave!
Scheme | aBBBABc xdAxedb ABxfAfff ecxxcx ABBBAbex |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10101110 11111 11111 11111 11101110 11111 10111010 111 0111 1101110 1011111 11 01111 101011111 1101110 11111 11011 111011 1101110 11111 111001111 11 1111 001111101 10111010 111101 11011111 110101010 1101110 11111 11111 11111 11101110 101111 11 011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 924 |
Words | 184 |
Sentences | 27 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 7, 8, 6, 8 |
Lines Amount | 36 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 145 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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