Analysis of Not The Only One
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Listen.
And I hope I make this very clear.
I have no interest in wearing your clothes.
Or making false impressions,
To your neighbors, friends or those you may...
Claim to know.
If I express my interest in you,
It is not what you have or assume I want.
With it to believe,
My interest in you is something I wish...
Is returned to receive.
I admire your discipline.
And your efforts to endeavor.
With unrelenting motivating incentive.
This I respect and have expressed before.
Being questioned about that?
I am not going to go through it anymore.
Listen.
And know this now,
For the last time to comprehend.
With it understood to understand.
Who you are is special.
However...
You are not the only one on Earth who is!
| Scheme | Axxxxx xxbxb acxdxd Axxxxcx |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10 011111101 1111001011 1101010 111011111 111 110111001 11111110111 11101 1100111011 101101 1011100 01101010 1010100010 1101010101 1010011 11110111101 10 0111 1011101 1101101 111110 10 11101011111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 719 |
| Words | 156 |
| Sentences | 20 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 5, 6, 7 |
| Lines Amount | 24 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 139 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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