Analysis of What The Never Of It Was
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Fairytales and those old stories told.
To capture the imagination.
Of children taught and made to believe.
In minds kept to keep.
As they grew older to also teach.
Lullabies and repeated nursery rhymes.
Sung to sing.
Everywhere and all the time.
TV shows, videos and movies created.
To emulate and imitate,
Pick actors to idolize characters made.
Merchandized and sold.
As a way to stay portrayed and craved.
And what the never of it was,
Had been about the truth or its reality.
Meant to disbelieve,
Whatever the truth had been to be...
Today?
Should be considered a threat.
And is.
By those deluded and permanently fictioned.
To accept and defend,
Their way of life entitled to refuse and deny...
Those old told fairytales.
Lullabies.
And nursery rhymes still sung to sing.
Have been the reason behind,
Conflicts, division and sickened mentalities.
Leaving many left not to connect,
What our children are taught to teach...
Has a direct effective affect,
On a reality...
Many suspect but can not accept,
The truth to refuse it as it is to be...
Has never been proven to be beneficial!
'The Earth is the center of the Universe.
And we are the chosen ones.'
'Okay.
But tell me this...
Is the Earth,
Up, down to the left or right...
In a massive Universe.
Which no beginning nor end of it,
Has of yet been found.'
'That is your opinion.'
'And...
Your opinion is based upon what?'
'Our BELIEFS!
Geeessshhh.
Our eyes to us do not lie.'
'Just how wide have they been open?'
'We...
Huh?'
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10011101 11000010 110101101 01111 111101101 1000101001 111 100101 111100010010 110010 1101101001 101 101110101 01010111 1101011110 11001 10011111 01 1101001 01 11010010001 101001 1111010101001 11110 10 010011111 1101001 010100101 101011101 110101111 100101001 1010 100111101 01101111111 11011011010 0110101010 0110101 1 1111 101 1110111 001010 110101111 11111 111010 0 101011011 1001 1 10111111 11111110 1 1 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,492 |
Words | 325 |
Sentences | 44 |
Stanzas | 11 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 3, 5, 22, 2, 7, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2 |
Lines Amount | 53 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 103 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Written on August 08, 2022
Submitted by lpahtillah on August 08, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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