Analysis of Soiled Is The Normal
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Soiled to have spoiled,
That normalcy.
And protected with an acceptance,
Is the throwing of childish tantrums.
As if ignored to dismiss and allow,
It to be sanctioned.
To overlook those feeling uncomfortable,
Of losing the face to perceive replaces...
An aging image of who represents,
The selling of democracy.
And what that is to become resented.
Many will claim,
Themselves to be patriotic.
Wavers of a flag torn and tattered.
With a pledging of their loyalty.
Although few of the many,
Will actually devote...
There time to give to a civic service,
To prove...
Their receiving of freedoms.
And entitlements to them given...
Have been deserving to get.
As a justified reward,
For vocalizing their disenchantment!
And who are they heard protesting most?
Of times for them changing,
From coast to coast?
Are the very ones upset,
By what others receive and get.
To yet not know a thing,
About what has made the United States...
Great.
Since the truth and reality of that,
They would rather evade.
Or...
Go out of their way to eliminate the facts.
While complaining and sitting,
Bemoaning the rise of diversity.
To believe their acts,
Of standing tall...
On the shoulders and carried on backs.
By the ones doing the work.
You know...
The 'they' of 'them'.
Criticized, disenfranchised...
Disparaged and victimized.
However...
Used as tools to conveniently compare,
An absence of a quality of life.
Those already entitled to have rights,
To display their fading 'normalized'...
And tantrum throwing,
Comfortable to live lives...
Based upon lies and available deceptions.
With a doing to believe,
They have been made the victims...
Of their own bigoted,
And racist activities they have created.
They protest of being replaced!
In a place they wish all credit,
For what was once...
A destination to experience greatness!
Now?
Today?
Soiled is that normal.
By those who believe themselves,
Not only chosen.
But also descendents to fiction,
An image of royalty...
That has been historically to depict!
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Poetic Form | Etheree (26%) Tetractys (24%) |
Metre | 1111 1100 001011010 101011010 1101101001 11110 11011001000 11001101010 110101101 01010100 0111101010 1011 0111010 11011010 101011100 111010 110001 1111101010 11 1010110 001001110 1101011 101001 1110010 011110101 111110 1111 1010101 11100101 111101 0111100101 1 10101011 111001 1 11111101001 1010010 0100110100 10111 1101 101001011 1011001 11 0111 10001 0100100 10 1111010001 1101010011 1010010111 10111010 01010 1000111 101100100010 1010101 1111010 111100 010010011010 111101 00111110 1111 00101010010 1 01 11110 1110101 11010 110010110 1101100 11101000101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,925 |
Words | 328 |
Sentences | 47 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 11, 13, 18, 20, 8 |
Lines Amount | 70 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 312 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 66 |
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