Analysis of Conflict To Avoid
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Conflict to avoid,
Can be...
A commendable human effort.
Yet...
If conflict is as it today appears,
An accepted effort many seem to endeavor.
Everywhere to condone the supporting of it.
To endorse and solicit.
Attempting to avoid conflict,
For anyone wanting to do this wished.
Could and can be regarded,
As an unpatriotic nonconformist.
Seeking to threaten,
The presence of civil unrest.
And...
Peace to wish and have this to exist?
In some places far and near,
Can be considered an act of treason.
And can be the cause and reason,
To label them agitators.
With warrants issued for their arrests.
Repeating those times,
When many found it easy to find...
A purpose that allows them,
To undermine and redefine...
Their interpretation,
Of a document to deceive and mislead...
What has been written to deny its meaning.
'But...
This is to the benefit of who or whom,
To ultimately please and satisfy?'
'Makers of weapons.
Prescription pills.
Loan approvers.
Assisting to deepen owed credit bills.
And others declaring themselves,
Experts in the field of curing mental illness!
Leaving everyone feeling,
Victimized and addicted...
To some kind of conflict.
Deluded to fiction and made believed is true!'
'But...
Why?'
'This theory and that theory.
Diversity.
The economy.
Oil and gas prices.
Weight loss.
Weight gain.
Sex and butt sizes.
Same sex relationships.
And any headache claimed,
To have been caused by someone else...
Is enough to validate being,
Mentally and physically abused.
You name it!
The entire World has become,
No more or no less...
Than a great big tear producing onion!'
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10101 11 001001010 1 1101110101 1010101011010 10101001011 1010010 01010110 110101111 1011010 110010010 10110 01011001 0 111011101 0110101 1101011110 01101010 1101100 110101101 01011 110111011 0101011 1100001 10010 10100101001 11110101110 1 11101001111 110001010 10110 0101 11 0101101101 01001001 100011101010 101010 1000010 111110 010110010111 1 1 1100110 0100 00100 10110 11 11 10110 11010 01011 1111111 101110010 1000100001 111 00101101 11111 1011101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,594 |
Words | 327 |
Sentences | 44 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 14, 7, 7, 3, 10, 2, 16 |
Lines Amount | 59 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 177 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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Written on June 16, 2022
Submitted by lpahtillah on June 16, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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