Analysis of Wishing Away

Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)



Who is it these days,
To have aged and wished...
Of having a crystal ball.
And the mind of a prophet.
To profit from things done to come.
With pockets filled to give cash to everyone?

Everyone who knew to accept the truth.

Knowing this to invest in,
Would benefit them with benefits too!

And no one then could accuse or blame,
A living in denial,
Had been the main reason...
Pretensions to delude and fiction,
Their debts to own and owe...
Came to addict them to falsely claim...
Others made them do it.

Because of impressions,
And appearances desired to make...
On the very people,
Who themselves...
Also live beyond their means.
And yet...
Those of ethnic diversity,
Have been told to tell and said to believe...
Are the reason and cause,
To have forced them faithfully to perceive...
Themselves,
As being better than others living in poverty!

Once nuts have been cracked,
Open.
For all to see,
Undeniably.
To reveal what they are to be?
Difficult it is to put them back.
Into shells to then pretend,
Them to be something else they are not!


Scheme XXXXXA X XX BCAAXBX XXCDXXEFXFDE XAEEEXXX
Poetic Form
Metre 11111 11101 1100101 0011010 11011111 1101111110 101110101 1011010 1100111001 011110111 0100010 110110 010101010 111101 110111101 101111 011010 0010001011 101010 101 1010111 01 11100100 1111101101 101001 1111100101 01 11010110100100 11111 10 1111 0100 10111111 100111111 0111101 111101111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,048
Words 227
Sentences 23
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 6, 1, 2, 7, 12, 8
Lines Amount 36
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 134
Words per stanza (avg) 31
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Written on August 04, 2022

Submitted by lpahtillah on August 04, 2022

Modified by lpahtillah on August 04, 2022

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