Analysis of Deceiver
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
I have not lied.
About anything I did to do.
My ups and downs.
And mistakes to make,
Have been admitted.
Truth and I have come to a truce.
Without a pretentiousness to fake it.
What about you?
'That truce between you and truth,
Is as solid as ice melting away...
In the month of May.
Existing to sit dripping temporarily.'
'Coming out of the mouth of one,
Who repeatedly to permanently deceive!'
| Scheme | XAXXXXXA XBBX XX |
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111 01101111 1101 00111 11010 10111101 0101111 1011 1101101 1110111001 00111 01011100100 10110111 101001100001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 397 |
| Words | 89 |
| Sentences | 12 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8, 4, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 101 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted by lpahtillah on March 20, 2022
Modified by lpahtillah on March 20, 2022
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