Analysis of Assumptions And Disbelief
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
I am guilty.
Yes.
And I confess admittedly.
No longer do I protest,
My innocence to know it...
Has had my own delusions to digest.
You see,
Judge and jury.
And others living to witness my guilt.
So long and most of my life.
I admit being guilty of denial.
Yes.
I had been taught as a child,
By those would teach.
There is justice for all.
But that justice for 'all' did not apply to me.
Or others of shown ethnic diversity.
You see,
Judge and jury...
And others observing my guilt from birth.
I had been guilty of having,
The audacity and nerve to think...
As a human being I would be treated equally.
Assuming I did,
Since I walk the Earth...
My skin color had worth.
More than the dirt thrown in my face.
You see,
Jury and judgment passers.
I had no idea,
My being taught to be of discipline,
Respect.
With a pride, identity and dignity expressed.
I would also be treated that very same way.
But today?
I am not convinced,
What others have shown to me...
With their teaching to be taught,
Hatred, division, conflict and bigotry...
Done to expect me to accept,
Their absence of consciousness...
That disrespects my ethnic self.
I admit to confess my guilt,
Of assuming as a human being...
Others would see me,
Like they would see themselves.
To discover this to delude,
Has been a guilt...
Of my own reflective assumptions!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110 1 01010100 110111 1100111 1111010101 11 1010 0101011011 1101111 10110101010 1 1111101 1111 111011 111011110111 11011100100 11 1010 0100101111 11110110 001000111 10101011110100 01011 11101 111011 11011011 11 1001010 111010 1101111100 01 1010100010001 111011011011 101 11101 1101111 1110111 10010100100 11011101 1101100 1011101 10110111 1010101010 10111 111101 10101101 1101 111010010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,328 |
Words | 296 |
Sentences | 34 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 11, 10, 7, 15 |
Lines Amount | 49 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 202 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 49 |
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