Analysis of Which One Upsets You More?
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Is it the truth that bothers you.
And...
You can not handle it?
Or is it,
Its reality?
You refuse to accept.
And admit to yourself exists.
Which one upsets you more?
'What difference does it make?
Either way,
My life to delude and fiction...
Is keeping my nights sleepless.
Leaving my beliefs,
Threatened and attacked.
By evidence and the facts of life.
No longer can I afford to avoid them!
This kept to deny,
Has me feeling undecisive.
Mentally disturbed as if crazed!'
Well...
You will not be alone.
Which ever way you choose,
To pick one or the other.
Both will lead you,
These days...
Headed in the same direction.
| Scheme | AXBBXXXX X XCXXXDXXDX XXXXAXC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11011101 0 111101 111 110 101101 00110101 110111 1100111 101 11101010 1101110 10101 10001 110000111 11011011011 11101 11101 10001111 1 111101 110111 1111010 1111 11 10001010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 622 |
| Words | 140 |
| Sentences | 20 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8, 1, 10, 7 |
| Lines Amount | 26 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 118 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Written on July 16, 2022
Submitted by lpahtillah on July 16, 2022
Modified by lpahtillah on July 16, 2022
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