Analysis of Needless Wants To Wish
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Pointless.
And needless wants to wish.
For attention with undivided listening to get.
Those times are gone to no longer exist.
Today?
People will say,
Some of the most outrageous stuff to hear it.
To do this then claim,
Of a being misunderstood since childhood.
But never to have grown up,
To become an adult.
Because that to do,
Would have them made to be accountable...
For actions they have taken to accuse,
Others who refuse to accept excuses used.
By those seeking ways to find,
Reasons to blame...
Time was not given enough to them,
To be understood like the ones...
Doing the best they can to avoid the minds,
Of those who appear and look as if adults.
But seem incapable to act like one.
Or pretend to know what an adult is!
'What do you mean,
I am not yet an adult.
Do you know how old I am?'
'Mentally, yes.
Chronologically?
I can only take a guess.
I would say...
Somewhere between 2 and 85.'
Scheme | XXX X AAXBX XCXXXXXBXXXX XX XCX DXDAX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10 010111 1010101010011 1111111001 01 1011 11010101111 11111 101000111 1101111 101101 01111 1111110100 1101110101 101011010101 1110111 1011 111100111 1101101 10011110101 11101011101 1101001111 1011111011 1111 1111101 1111111 1001 0100 1110101 111 1010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 909 |
Words | 206 |
Sentences | 23 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 1, 5, 12, 2, 3, 5 |
Lines Amount | 31 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 99 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Written on July 18, 2022
Submitted by lpahtillah on July 18, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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