Analysis of Using Common Sense

Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)



Could it be.
For the many finally the beginning,
Of using their minds and common sense.
Discovered,
With an awareness connected and found...
To have clarity.
As well as painless to their consciousness.

And...
For the many deluded to fiction,
Reality and truth to deny its existence.
Would find it found,
They have been duped, deceived.
With a hoodwinking done,
Curling their toes up to their knees.

They must be forgiven.
For the time it took for them so late,
To awaken to reality.
And having minds to have,
Allowed to go to waste.

Yet those awakened,
Could have never accept...
To believe themselves,
Made foolish enough to follow down a path...
With no escape but to face,
A dead end road.

Then told to hit their heads against,
Steel fences built and tall cemented walls.
To eliminate and free them,
From the truth and pain of hearing it all.
Then be convinced,
Their minds would be permanently numbed...
Forever not to feel,
The agony of their own permitted stupidity!
Done to eventually leave them,
Feeling great.
After they have cured and healed themselves,
Back into a normalcy missed to wish again!
Without a hint of truth to delude, deny...
Or fiction it lived!

'No way.
You mean,
We were that unconscious?'

So unconscious you were.
You were made to believe,
Going back to the past...
Would open the gates to your future!
With stick and rocks,
Thrown from sheltered caves.
To protect yourselves,
From rumors of threats heard to hear created.

'We had to have been hypnotized.'

Or media socialized.
Whichever the one,
Blinded and unconscious you were...
To accept and made to believe,
Anyone of an ethnic diversity...
Were coming to replace your presence.
Even though they and you,
Depend on each other to exist!


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Poetic Form
Metre 111 10101000010 110110101 010 1101001001 11100 1111011100 0 1010010110 10011011010 1111 111101 1011 10111111 111010 101111111 1010110 010111 011111 11010 111001 10101 11001110101 1101111 0111 11111101 1101010101 1010011 1010111011 1101 111110001 010111 01001110100100 110100011 101 101110101 101010011101 01011110101 11011 11 11 10110 11010 101101 101101 110011110 1101 11101 10101 11011111010 1111110 110010 01001 1001010 10101101 1011100100 01011110 101101 011110101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,729
Words 363
Sentences 36
Stanzas 9
Stanza Lengths 7, 7, 5, 6, 14, 3, 8, 1, 8
Lines Amount 59
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 149
Words per stanza (avg) 33
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Written on July 13, 2022

Submitted by lpahtillah on July 13, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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