Analysis of Erased Mistakes

Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)



No one can erase their mistakes made.
Or them to have been known,
To miraculously leave...
Those who remember these mistakes.
As decisions to make...
In defiance of certain failures.
Failures.
Warned to create them to face.
Unmistakably to come,
Like the other ones done.

And difficult it becomes to forgive,
Someone who excuses...
Their decisions made repeatedly,
Without common sense.
And thought to use to do.
But chooses to accuse and blame others,
Hired to clean up a mess left behind.
By known decision makers picked,
To fix problems as they occur.
And not their noses in the hopes,
Whatever they come up with to dig out...
Solves the issues that reveals a cure.

'Our mistakes to make we acknowledge,
Have been correctly identified...
As poor judgements to have been made.
And not as before to claim,
A knowing of our actions to premeditate.
Therefore,
We declare our decisions...
As a misunderstanding,
Of what it was we intended to accomplish.
And not a malicious effort to ignore,
Our poor judgements made to fail.
On purpose.
Even if that happened, afterall!'

'Has got to be...
The most ridiculous nonsense,
I have heard in quite some time.
This side of the Universe.
And...
Incredible enough,
Not only are the facts avoided.
But also,
Your ability to dance around reality...
Is an achievement unseen to witness,
Nowhere since time began.
You have such a remarkable gift for B.S.'

'I don't know what to say.'

'Please,
By all means...
Do us all a favor.
And not say anything else!
You, your friends...
Have minds messed up around here.
And you are the ones,
With minds messed up!
Done convincingly to be followed,
By folks who believe you to be brilliant!


Scheme AXXBXCCXXX XXDEXCXXFXXX XXAXXGHXXGXIX DEXXXXXXDIXB X XXFXXXHXXX
Poetic Form
Metre 111011011 111111 1010001 11010101 101011 001011010 10 1101111 010011 101011 0100101101 11010 101010100 01101 011111 1101010110 1011101101 11010101 11101101 01110001 101111111 101010101 1001111010 11010010 11101111 0110111 010110101010 1 10110010 100010 111110101010 01001010101 10110111 110 10111010 1111 01010010 1110111 111010 0 010001 110101010 110 10100110110 1101001110 11101 11100100111 111111 1 111 111010 011101 111 1111011 01101 1111 101001110 1110111110
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,634
Words 296
Sentences 43
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 10, 12, 13, 12, 1, 10
Lines Amount 58
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 215
Words per stanza (avg) 48
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Submitted by lpahtillah on August 22, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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