Analysis of False Lips Split Relationships
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Before the next dawn on the horizon,
Has had time to appear...
In the sky to rise.
All it takes,
Is one liar up early spreading a lie.
Whispered to hear it.
Before twilight approaches.
And the setting Sun nears.
To end close relationships.
With relatives, friends and neighbors.
Leaving one later to discover and find,
What it was they did or said.
To someone else.
Neither to know or had ever met.
Yet rumored to be quilty to offend,
Their friends, relatives and neighbors.
One's own neighbors knew to know.
Or met.
But yet,
Through the gossiped grapevine...
A rotten habitual liar,
To believe.
Effectively destroyed,
Those once enjoyed relationships.
To end them all!
Before the next dawn breaks.
Leaving behind eyes to roll.
Backs to turn.
And arguments started,
Between children, their friends.
To have the police to come.
In the midst of everyone,
Witnessed attacking themselves.
Over what was said and done.
By 'someone!
No one can admit to have known.
Or had met to describe,
As proof or evidence...
To blame as to why,
Fighting themselves over nothing...
Became necessary for the cops,
To be called to arrest the ones.
But not those awaiting,
For the ambulances to arrive.
'Yes, yes. And who are you?'
'I...well...
I guess I am the one,
Who started all of this mess.'
'Minding my own business!'
'What kind of confession is that?'
'I have no idea.
However...
If my confession brings an end,
To all of this mess...
Rumored to claim I had started?
I want to be in court,
With proof of evidence of my innocence!'
'Take my advice,
Go into your apartment.
And close your door.'
'I don't live near here.
I was coming to visit a friend.
Who came outside to say hello to me.
And the next thing I knew,
His neighbors began attacking him.'
'Why? And for what?'
'Who knows!
He was minding his own business too!
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,755 |
Words | 335 |
Sentences | 55 |
Stanzas | 12 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 16, 18, 1, 3, 1, 1, 7, 3, 5, 1, 2 |
Lines Amount | 68 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 115 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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