Analysis of No Defense

Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)



Explaining the unexplainable.
Inevitably,
Has its own guilt.
And sentenced with time,
On one's mind deserving of it served.

Gone to no longer
Is the excusing of ignorance.
As a reason to being used,
For anyone claiming not to know...
Today's occurring events to pretend,
They had no knowledge of them.
When a sniffing of this filth,
Is swift and quick in the air everywhere.

There is no defense to pretend,
Or blame it claimed on ignorance.
Stupidity?
Perhaps.
But even that to use as one's defense,
Has those positions already filled.
By those imitating to be intelligent.
With an acceptance,
That has every decision they make...
Pass suspicions without questioning them.

Yet comes to be done one day,
Consequences for one's actions...
Is delivered and addressed to be paid.
Personally.
Leaving it senseless in attempts to explain,
The unexplainable.
Them being a participant in these events.
Without having the knowledge,
Or being aware of posing in pictures.
And captured in videos,
Admitting to declare their involvement.


Scheme ABXXX XCXXDEXX DCBXXXFCXE XXXBXAXXXXF
Poetic Form
Metre 01000100 01000 1111 01011 111010111 11110 100101100 10101101 11010111 0101001101 1111011 1010111 110100110 11101101 11111100 0100 01 1101111101 110100101 11100110100 11010 1110001011 1010011001 1111111 1001110 1010001111 1000 10110001101 00100 110001000101 0110010 11001110010 0100100 0101011010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,029
Words 203
Sentences 21
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 5, 8, 10, 11
Lines Amount 34
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 204
Words per stanza (avg) 42
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Written on June 16, 2022

Submitted by lpahtillah on June 16, 2022

Modified on April 21, 2023

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