Analysis of Debating Decision Makers
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Debating decision makers,
Can not stop...
What procrastinating does,
Without immediate need of action done.
Debating leaders unable to come together,
And make...
One decision benefitting all the people,
That takes...
Immediate need of action,
Yet...
Is,
Discover they procrastinate.
Are not the leaders to leading anyone.
When a storm is a warning of times come,
Leaders in positions are expected...
To be proactive and effective.
Not run.
Or await what should be done.
After witnessing to observe,
A devastation no one deserves.
This to accomplish has its price to pay.
For the ones faithfully hoping,
What had been for them a normalcy...
Will return as it was again,
To have it stay.
Although that which had been has gone away.
Fading with the signs of times.
Leaving behind,
Leaders blinded.
With minds lost undermined.
By those who pantomime,
How a leader should perform for publicity.
So...
The needs of the people are left debated.
Publicly.
In a repetitious rhetoric entertaining act.
To perform.
With verbal vicious attacks to perform.
Leaving nothing moving forward,
But the storm.
Of conflict and confusion left to go on.
Leaving nothing moving forward,
But the storm.
Here.
Leaving nothing moving forward,
But the storm.
Everywhere.
Leaving nothing moving on,
For the people winning more of less to get.
Yet...
Left expected,
Which debater won.
Leaves the people believing...
When all is done,
The benefits to them come!
'I loved it.'
'You loved what?'
'All the name calling.
The hitting below the belt.
The racial hatred spewed.
As if venomous snakes.
And...
The personal attacks on their supporters.'
'Oh?
So...
Your mind is made up?
You already know who won your vote?'
'No.
That I haven't decided yet.
I am still not convinced,
Who is more deceiving than the other.
I pride myself on being independent.
However...
The next debate,
I've heard will take place in Vegas.'
'The boxing match.
Rumor has it,
That a knock out should then determined...
Who the real winner is!'
'Tell me you're joking.'
'Okay.
I'm joking.
But...
The price I paid for ringside seats?
And...
Comes with a free turkey too!
Ain't no joke!'
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Metre | 01001010 111 101001 01010011101 0101001011010 01 101010001010 11 01001110 1 1 0101010 1101011010 1011010111 1000101010 111100010 11 1011111 10100101 00101101 1101011111 10110010 111110100 10111101 1111 111111101 1010111 1001 1010 11101 11110 101010110100 1 01101011010 100 000101000101 101 1101001101 10101010 101 11000101111 10101010 101 1 10101010 101 10 1010101 10101011111 1 1010 10101 1010010 1111 0100111 111 111 10110 0100101 010101 111001 0 01000111010 1 1 11111 101011111 1 1110101 111101 1110101010 111110010 10 0101 11111010 0101 1011 101111010 101101 11110 1 110 1 0111111 0 1101101 111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 2,148 |
Words | 458 |
Sentences | 68 |
Stanzas | 14 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 9, 7, 12, 17, 6, 1, 1, 6, 4, 8, 4, 1, 7 |
Lines Amount | 87 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 117 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Written on October 28, 2022
Submitted by lpahtillah on October 28, 2022
Modified by lpahtillah
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