Analysis of Choosing Battles
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
The ones who choose,
Their battles to win...
Against the right people.
To prove with confidence,
This choice to do?
May win.
Again and again.
Always lose the support,
Of the ones who once thought...
Them worthy of endorsing them,
As thoughtful human beings.
To discover,
They would be better to abandon...
Not only this thought.
But them as well to leave.
On a ship to believe,
Could be prevented from sinking!
People like this,
To unconsciously trust...
May win their picked battles.
But to identify,
Who their enemies are to make them?
Has never shown to have been,
A kept defense...
Against an image upheld by ignorance!
An image to fiction in minds to cement.
And..
A trusted ignorance kept imaged,
To thrive upon it to nourish?
Eventually defeats to beat itself.
Like no one else can do!
History proves this.
Time and time to repeat.
Over and over again.
As if the doing is sought to seek...
Victoriously!
'Where are you all going?
Why aren't you not staying to praise us?'
Scheme | XABCDAEXFGXXXFHHI JXXXGAXCX XDXXD JXEXB IX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111 11011 010110 111100 1111 11 01001 11001 101111 11010101 1101010 1010 111101010 11011 111111 101101 11010110 1011 11001 111110 11010 111001111 1101111 0101 01110011100 11011001101 0 01010011 11011110 01000011101 111111 10011 101101 1001001 110101111 1 111110 1101110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 986 |
Words | 218 |
Sentences | 29 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 17, 9, 5, 5, 2 |
Lines Amount | 38 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 150 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted by lpahtillah on January 13, 2022
Modified by lpahtillah on January 13, 2022
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