Analysis of Persistence
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Persistence as an incentive kept to keep,
One motivated to dream...
With this wished success.
Is just one significant ingredient to apply.
By one knowing,
Their direction and path taken...
Is not a surprise.
If their efforts to endeavor,
Remains focused and tried.
With kept faith not denied.
To one with persistence,
Comes those times...
When sacrifice is tested.
And an uninvited procrastination arrives.
Like a sweet talking demon,
Throwing a wrench into a wheel...
Delaying one's journey to stop their drive.
But this to permit,
Is a personal argument one knows...
Can and should be ended quick.
Remembering,
It is the dream that is the mission.
And not unsolicited opinions,
Awakening a doubt one can do without!
'Out you damn spot.
Negativity whispered in my ear?
Is a wasted attempt.
Am I making that clear?
I am not a doubting Thomas!
From me?
Disappear.'
'You don't have to be so determined!'
'Whatever!
You demonstrate reek of self adulation.'
Who allowed these demons,
To roam the World? Whenever...
And wherever they please.
They must have been unionized.
Anyway...
Persistence?
Persistence is a repetitious undoing,
Of appetizing on excuses to make.
And to hear them less innovative,
Than my grandmother use to create.
When making a deep dish peach cobbler.
To tell us,
Using pears would taste the same.
'Clever, grandma.
Even though,
We know you didn't have peaches?
You put your foot in these pears.
So delicious.'
If your dream wished,
Is kept as an oath to pledge?
Proving nothing to anyone.
But yourself?
How and what others may or may not think...
About your mission to complete successfully?
Is your decision to keep,
Your business to become...
As successfully to achieve the impossible,
To believe and see.
Needing no one to be convinced of it.
Since the evidence of that proof,
Is in the doing with persistence!
Scheme | AXXXBCXDEE FXXXCXXGXXBCHX XXXIJKI X DC HDXXXFBXXXDJX XXXXJ XXCXXKAXXKGXF |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Tetractys (32%) |
Metre | 01011010111 110011 11101 11101000100101 1110 10100110 11001 11101010 011001 111101 111010 111 110110 01010001001 1011010 10010101 0101101111 11101 1010010011 1011101 0100 110111010 010100010 01000111101 1111 010010011 101001 111011 11101010 11 01 111111010 10 110111010 101110 1101010 001011 111110 10 010 01010010010 1100101011 01111100 11101101 110011110 111 1011101 1010 101 11110110 1111011 1010 1111 1111111 1010110 101 1011011111 011101010100 1101011 110101 1010010100100 10101 1011110111 10100111 100101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,844 |
Words | 381 |
Sentences | 50 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 14, 7, 1, 2, 13, 5, 13 |
Lines Amount | 65 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 179 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
Font size:
Citation
Use the citation below to add this poem analysis to your bibliography:
Style:MLAChicagoAPA
"Persistence" Poetry.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 21 May 2024. <https://www.poetry.com/poem-analysis/114027/persistence>.
Discuss this Lawrence S. Pertillar poem analysis with the community:
Report Comment
We're doing our best to make sure our content is useful, accurate and safe.
If by any chance you spot an inappropriate comment while navigating through our website please use this form to let us know, and we'll take care of it shortly.
Attachment
You need to be logged in to favorite.
Log In