Analysis of Juiced Up Boosted
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
No matter the drug,
Legalized to market it.
The affect will remain to stay,
On one's consciousness to believe...
What occurs naturally,
Within one's body...
Is no longer necessary to await,
What the body does to heal itself.
And whatever one is told to sell,
To quicken the process to do this well.
Many accept to perceive,
No other choice they have but to adapt...
To that,
Which is induced artificially.
For time released or instant relief.
Done to do juiced up and boosted.
Regularly.
Like a robot to be switched on or off.
With a mind gone kept programmed.
Unneeded to think to control,
By what has been sold to guarantee...
The maintaining to keep a dependency!
'Crime today is at an all time high.'
'Which kind of crime?'
'Theft, corruption, deception, fraud.
You name it!'
'Why, I wonder?'
'Drugs.
No one can escape,
From them being marketed.
People today are taking 'this for that'.
'That for this'.
Under or over the counter.
In broad daylight.
On street corners,
Or in the darkest of alleys.
Coming to arrive from gated communities.
To feed their lusting addictions.
Hoping their disguises hide who they are,
In urban neighborhoods.
Where their daily arrangements,
Have been timely scheduled.
Once a dependency begins,
To fictionalized heightened delusions?
That's it!
People will travel distances for that 'hit'.
Doctors, lawyers, cake bakers...
Politicians, candlestick makers.
Indian chiefs and preachers,
College professors.
And pretentious goal setters.
Will do anything to get that fix.
ANYTHING that will do the trick.
Just to get away from truth to face as is!
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Metre | 11001 101101 00110111 11100101 1011000 01110 1110100101 101011101 01011111 110011111 1001101 1101111101 11 11010100 110111001 11111010 1000 101111111 101111 01011101 11111101 00101100100 101111111 1111 10100101 111 1110 1 11101 1110100 1001110111 111 10110010 011 1110 10010110 101011100100 11110010 1010101111 01010 1110010 111010 10010001 110010010 11 10110100111 1010110 0101010 1001010 10010 0010110 11101111 1011101 11101111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,525 |
Words | 266 |
Sentences | 40 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 14, 1, 1, 2, 1, 15, 4, 8 |
Lines Amount | 54 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 136 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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