Analysis of Knee Deep And Stuck
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
To argue over it or not.
We have seemed to reach,
A place knee deep and stuck.
Needless to debate.
Or question which direction,
To the right or left to take.
When consciously to follow,
Beliefs to not know why but do.
To wonder too late to use,
Common sense to refuse.
To depend upon others to have it.
Their guess is as good,
As any other to discovery this.
Pointless it is to yell for help.
To expect it to come,
From the ones also yelling,
'You fools have been told repeatedly...
Walking consciously into quicksand,
Is no way out of dilemmas...
Without a strategy to plan,
An alternative one.
Just in case you maybe faced,
With obstacles to least...
Consider to be prepared for them as well!
When anyone becomes,
Knee deep and stuck...
In decisions they have made.
What is someone else to do?
But to respect those decisions.
And more on!
To know,
Experiences to live them.
Can not be taught to teach them learned!
Life to live it,
And survive painless.
Does not provide,
Such options!
Scheme | XXAXBX CDXXEXX XXXXXXXBXXX XAXDFX CXXEXXF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010111 11111 011101 10101 1101010 1011111 1100110 01111111 1101111 101101 1010110111 11111 11010101001 10111111 101111 1011010 111110100 10100011 11111010 01010011 101001 1011101 110011 01011011111 11001 1101 0010111 111111 11011010 011 11 01000111 11111111 1111 00110 1101 110 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 951 |
Words | 181 |
Sentences | 23 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 7, 11, 6, 7 |
Lines Amount | 37 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 152 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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