Analysis of Gravity
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Not all things that fall to the bottom,
Suddenly.
To perceive and believe,
Will stay suspended in high places...
Permanently.
With a doing that involves,
The pulling of Earth's gravity.
Those seeking their climb,
To the top of exclusive kept authority.
Seen these days to orbit around,
Intentional misdeeds...
Purposely in secret to deceive.
Are themselves disbelieving,
Their airtight activities...
Would never be discovered or found.
Then up pops,
Stool Pigeons.
And professed loyal weasels.
All over the place.
With their pretensions imitated fading.
Miraculously.
Confessions nonstop...
Start to be heard coming out of mouths.
Dropping from the top to the bottom,
As if a showering of boulders and rocks.
Dressed to appear,
None other than those...
Selling tall and false tales sold.
In the hopes,
To keep their wicked deeds defended.
By the many who bought,
The belief that doors...
Will remain opened to them permanently.
Without those doors to close,
On their fictioned mentalities forever.
Leaving many running faster,
With a wish to fly higher...
Their homemade kites.
But their delusions,
Once ascending to suspend...
Without the presence to fiction wind.
Disbelieving this reality,
They run until out of breath.
Hoping to get themselves elected,
In high places to keep...
Their delusions kept in check.
Even though no hold do they have,
Over the gravity of the facts.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111111010 100 101001 110100110 1000 1010101 01011100 11011 101101010100 11111001 010001 100010101 1010010 110100 110101011 111 110 0011010 11001 1101010010 01000 0101 111110111 101011010 11010011001 1101 11011 1010111 001 111101010 101011 00111 10110111000 011111 1111010 10101010 1011110 1111 11010 1010101 010101101 0010110 1101111 101101010 011011 1010101 10111111 100100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,383 |
Words | 272 |
Sentences | 32 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 13, 15, 13 |
Lines Amount | 48 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 273 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 55 |
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