Analysis of Late Discovery
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Too late has been the discovery,
Of those who sold...
Their lies well to tell told.
For anyone to empathize,
The ones who had been victimized.
To now discover and realize too late,
They too had been used to abuse...
With a doing to accuse,
Not only themselves.
But also others who refuse,
Excuses made.
Done to believe apologies to make them,
Will return to restore...
A loyalty once had shown to express,
Stays unchanged to remain as it had been.
To hear those victimized accept,
A forgetting to let go...
Memories to experience,
At their expense.
Lies heard to hear from those to tell.
With a knowing too well,
Who said what meant to intend it.
Although done to do to not expect,
Tables to turn.
Finding them serving up the B.S.
And enjoying to watch,
Those wanting more...
To take home for themselves.
Done to spread and share with others.
Others unsuspecting,
A feeding on created tales.
With a poisoning their tongues.
Leaving few if any left to believe,
Anything they say to repeat heard to hear...
Is credible enough.
To pay attention to whatever apology given.
Coming too late to mend,
What has been permanently broken.
Facts are facts.
Truth is truth.
As honesty is free to give.
From the beginning to start.
And difficult it is,
To have that which has been lost.
Back.
When not to have been there.
As if not to have gone at all.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111100100 1111 111111 110110 01111100 1101001011 11111101 1010101 11001 11010101 0101 11010100111 101101 0100111101 1011011111 11110001 0010111 10010100 1101 11111111 101011 11111011 11111101 1011 10110101 001011 1101 111101 11101110 10010 01010101 1010011 1011101101 1011101111 110001 11010110010010 101111 111100010 111 111 11001111 1001011 010011 1111111 1 111111 11111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,341 |
Words | 292 |
Sentences | 32 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 24, 14, 4, 5 |
Lines Amount | 47 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 259 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 61 |
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Written on October 04, 2022
Submitted by lpahtillah on October 04, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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