Analysis of No Picture To Paint It
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
There has yet been a picture,
Being painted to see it.
Completed.
Until whoever paints it,
Is finished and done.
To either view and accept.
Or refuse the outcome to reject.
And neither is a lesson,
Begun to teach...
Is without questions to ask.
Although patience to have,
Is repeatedly suggested.
With this understood.
To one day understand,
Everything to learn can not be demanded.
Then one day,
Reality to live it for many begins.
As if a miracle happens.
With experiences before,
Never to have had.
Developing a wealth of wisdom.
This wisdom unexpected,
Comes to be done...
Welcomed to have it known,
A lesson once taught to teach...
Believed and thought,
What had been taught insignificant.
Eventually becomes more valued.
And kept to keep that way.
Priceless and worth the patience,
To clearly see...
What begins seldom stops evolving!
'I am so glad my mistakes made,
Created me to become...
A better human being.
With a forgiving myself,
To perceive and believe...
I knew everything!'
'Excuse me.
Are you talking to me?
Or yourself?'
'I have learned,
Never to make decisions for others.
However...
I can only suggest,
If what you overhear makes sense?
Don't ignore it or think it foolishness.
I once told a teacher that!'
'How long ago?'
'Once in elementary school.
And then to a training instructor.
When I had been in the military.'
'Whoa.
You were brave.'
'Not brave enough,
To know...
Ignorance and stupidity,
Would never stay my close friends!'
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111010 1010111 010 0101011 11001 1101001 10101101 0101010 0111 1011011 11011 10100010 1101 11101 1011111010 111 1011111001 11010010 10100001 10111 010001110 110010 1111 101111 0101111 0101 11110100 0100001110 011111 1001010 1101 101101010 11111011 0101101 0101010 100101 101001 1110 011 111011 101 111 1011010110 10 111001 11110111 1011111100 1110101 1101 100101 011010010 111100100 1 101 1101 11 10000100 1101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,466 |
Words | 315 |
Sentences | 42 |
Stanzas | 11 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 8, 6, 11, 6, 3, 7, 1, 3, 2, 4 |
Lines Amount | 58 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 102 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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