Analysis of A Different Showing Of Appreciation

Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)



If one should do for others...
Without expectations of impressions to make,
This would take less time...
To think of explanations to create.
For the purpose done to do for others,
Who hesitate awaiting for excuses to refuse...
What is done for them.
By someone they will take for granted.
And eventually not appreciate anyway.
With a believing what was done to do,
Unexpectedly...
Could have been better if they knew,
What was going to be done...
Had them choose with a choice,
Of their own to make.

'I...uh...don't know what to say.'

'Thank you is okay.'

'But...
You didn't have to go out if your way,
To do this.'

'If I had gone out of my way,
I would have expected...
From you a different response.
Along with a showing of appreciation!'

'It's not that I don't appreciate what you did.
I do.
But your doing caught me by surprise.
It's not often someone does anything for me,
Without my opinion or suggestions to give.'

'You're kidding?
By your reaction,
I would not have thought that at all!'


Scheme ABXXAXXCDEFEGXB D D XDX DCXG XEXFX XGX
Poetic Form
Metre 1111110 01010101011 11111 111010101 1010111110 1100101010101 11111 11111110 001000101010 1001011111 0100 11110111 1110111 111101 11111 11111 1111 1 1101111111 111 11111111 111010 11010001 01101010010 11111010111 11 111011101 1110111011 011010101011 110 11010 11111111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,005
Words 221
Sentences 26
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 15, 1, 1, 3, 4, 5, 3
Lines Amount 32
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 107
Words per stanza (avg) 26
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Submitted by lpahtillah on April 13, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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