Analysis of Learning What Is Taught
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
The one thing,
Learning what is taught does...
With a continuance not to learn.
Is a learning that is taught,
Leaving one more questions to ask.
Never to satisfy,
That curious thirst to never end...
One's ability to admit,
A knowing of anything...
Stays to remain unchanged.
I remember being called ignorant.
Many years ago.
To had become upset.
Someone perceived me to be,
Incapable to think independently.
So I set out to prove,
I was just as knowledgeable.
And intelligent.
To know I was not ignorant at all.
Then I discovered,
From my own experience.
To not attempt to convince anyone,
Of knowing anything that begins...
Innocently that ends,
In an argument yelling and shouting.
Over something that makes,
Common sense to claim it had...
Unproven without providing,
Any proof or evidence of it!
Today?
If someone wishes to boast and gloat,
About having apparently...
More intelligence.
Than I appear to have.
I wouldn't get upset at all.
Nope.
I would leave and thank them.
Knowing my peace of mind,
Is left intact.
And not to be provoked,
In performing ignorant acts.
Especially in public.
There are times when reacting,
To exchange ignorant behavior.
With another who knows and admits,
They claim an ability...
To identify what ignorance is.
Is to go along with their assessment.
There are times and not too often,
When accepting to be labelled ignorant.
Ultimately has its benefits.
To know to choose when to leave it,
Undefeated.
'Did you hear me call you 'ignorant'?
'Yes. Yes, I did.
And...
It sent shivers up and down my spine.
Covering my entire body in goosebumps!'
'Are you NUTS?!'
'Oh...
You had to go there.
PLEASE!
PLEASE DON'T ADD THE NUTS.
Just the mention of that word,
Drives me INSANE.
CRAVING FOR MADNESS!
WHERE ARE YOU GOING?
DONT GO.
PLEASE INSULT ME!
PLEASE!
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (31%) Etheree (29%) |
Metre | 011 101111 100100111 1010111 10111011 10110 110011101 10100101 010110 110101 1010101100 10101 110101 101111 0100110100 111111 11111000 00100 1111110011 11010 1110100 110110110 11010101 100011 0110010010 101011 1011111 01001010 101110011 01 11101101 01100100 10100 110111 11010111 1 111011 101111 1101 011101 00101001 010010 1111010 101100010 101011001 1110100 101011001 1110111010 11101110 10101110100 100011100 11111111 010 111111100 1111 0 111010111 10010101001 111 1 11111 1 11101 1010111 1101 10110 11110 11 1011 1 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,717 |
Words | 308 |
Sentences | 52 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 19, 13, 6, 5, 1, 4, 1, 7, 4 |
Lines Amount | 70 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 138 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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