Analysis of Nightmare To Reminisce
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
A living to live a past to have had,
Left behind.
To attempt a past gone,
Will be easier to forget...
As time and memories fade to pass.
For those to have not ever married.
However...
For the ones who have confesses a love,
To invest this love to marry then divorce.
That love to confess will be regretted.
Never to forget...
It was better than ever.
Before the mistake of saying 'I Do'.
Not with happy tears from eyes,
Then to cry.
To realize those tears of joy,
Cried for years to reminisce...
A doing done consciously to oneself,
Seems more now to wish...
Someone had screamed,
'RUN FOR YOUR LIFE.
IT'S ONLY A NIGHTMARE.
DISGUISED AS A WANTED DREAM.'
And that 'nightmare',
To realize to reminisce uninvited.
Is the reason many do not admit,
They have become addicted...
To the strongest medication,
Found to find without being arrested.
'Are you sure you are okay?'
'I feel great.
Why do you ask?'
'You look as if...
You have not a worry on your mind.
Smiling all the time like that.
Are you...on some kind of drug?'
'Yes.
And...it's generic too!'
'Where did you find it?'
'At my doctor's office.
I beg him for advice,
As to how I could rid...
An agonizing memory linger from my past.
And he immediately referred me,
To his hypnotist.'
'Yes.
HIS hypnotist.
To say he would pay for it.
At no charge to me.
And to consider it generic information.
Since...
Besides himself,
He knew and identified quickly...
The symptoms of my suffering.
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Metre | 0101101111 101 101011 11100101 110100111 111111010 10 1011101001 10111110101 1110111010 10101 1110110 0100111011 1110111 111 1101111 111101 010110011 11111 111 1111 11001 0110101 011 110101010 1010101101 1101010 1010010 1110110010 111111 111 1111 1111 111010111 1010111 111111 1 10101 11111 111010 111101 111111 1100010010111 0101000011 11100 1 1100 1111111 11111 010101010010 1 0101 11001010 01011100 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,397 |
Words | 271 |
Sentences | 44 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 23, 6, 1, 2, 4, 2, 1, 6, 9 |
Lines Amount | 54 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 120 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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