Analysis of Not Wanted Yet Found
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
If what is not wanted.
Seems all around to be found.
Or so this is repeatedly heard to hear.
As if the repetitousness of it,
Has not made what is unwanted clear.
Without it to question.
Yet to wonder is the one listening.
As to why?
Why would anyone,
Find their time to waste and spend...
Looking everywhere for the same exact thing.
Again and again.
For it to have been where it is.
And...
For what it was not to want!
With no response given.
To the one brought back.
Assisting the other to verify the fact.
'This mess is all over the place.
Look at it.'
I know.
I have.
And just as it is dependable,
To stay in that one place.
As you are to arrive to complain about it!
Over and over.
Not to go where it stays.
Leaving me to wonder,
Which is missing the other more.
And me?
Wondering if I should charge you,
A Finder's fee!
Scheme | XXXAXB CXBXCXXXXBXX DA XXXDAEXEXFXF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111110 1101111 11110100111 110111 111110101 011110 1110101100 111 1110 1111101 1010101011 01001 11111111 0 1111111 110110 10111 01001011001 11111001 111 11 11 011110100 110111 111101101011 10010 111111 101110 11100101 01 10011111 0101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 828 |
Words | 197 |
Sentences | 27 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 12, 2, 12 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 156 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 41 |
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Written on September 10, 2022
Submitted by lpahtillah on September 10, 2022
Modified by lpahtillah on September 10, 2022
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