Analysis of Given Rights To Defend Their Wrongs
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
When people are revealed,
To be habitually deceiving.
And will lie about anything,
With the utmost skill.
Does this matter and to who.
What their religious,
Or political affiliation is?
To know?
Them for who they are to be.
As more endorse and support,
Their false presented qualities.
And become defended by those,
Who also see themselves...
Imperfect human beings.
Giving their endorsement to someone else.
Unable to come to admit,
Lies to tell them told...
Is much better than facing,
A truth to live it kept to fiction and delude.
'Tell me,
Have you ever lived the truth.
To accept it as is to live it?'
'Yes.
Once I did.
And discovered the pain of doing it,
Unbearable to feel.
So I refused that kind of reality,
In my life to expect that anyone else...
Had the authority to pass judgement on me.'
'Even if what you continue to do is wrong?'
'That is your opinion.
And we all have them.
Correct?'
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Metre | 110101 1101000010 0110110 1011 1110011 11010 1010000101 11 1111111 1101001 11010100 00101011 110101 0101010 101010111 01011101 11111 1110110 011111110001 11 1110101 101111111 1 111 0010011101 010011 110111110 0111011101 100100111011 101110101111 111010 01111 01 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 905 |
Words | 200 |
Sentences | 24 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 19, 3, 7, 1, 3 |
Lines Amount | 33 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 138 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Written on October 08, 2022
Submitted by lpahtillah on October 08, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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