Analysis of Up Or Down Stairs
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Anyone fearing,
Their fictionalized way of life to live.
Based upon videos, movies.
TV cartoon characters.
And clowns portraying themselves,
As all-knowing privileged...
Business executives.
Feeling threatened of being stolen from them.
Is nuts.
Bona-fide out of the shell crazy.
To accept and believe,
Anything created from fantasy to make...
So visual to delude what is not true.
Yet to celebrate, defend and protect...
With weapons to use as an entitlement given.
Has got to be not all there.
Up or down stairs.
Or anywhere else near reality.
Incapable in their minds to separate,
A fiction that ends to begin...
Living their lives as grown men and women!
Having aware conscious common sense.
With a teaching their children,
The difference made to acknowledge as well.
And...
Should not be made afraid or feel threatened,
Of what has been put in their minds.
To believe is the truth about reality.
Yet...
With that said,
Many still will continue seeking to find...
To validate the fiction in their minds,
Anyway!
Even if this means a mission to create,
Their own enemies.
And that's life to live with entitlements,
To choose and refuse truth as is to be!
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQJRSOTOUVVWJXYZW1 RC2 J |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010 110011111 10110010 1101100 0101001 111010 100100 10101101011 11 101110110 101001 10010110011 11001011111 111001001 1101111010010 1111111 1111 1101110 0100011110 01011101 1011111010 100110101 1010110 01001101011 0 1111011110 11111011 1011010110 1 111 10110101011 1100010011 10 10111010101 11100 0111110100 1100111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,157 |
Words | 231 |
Sentences | 27 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 37 |
Lines Amount | 37 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 907 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 195 |
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Written on November 11, 2022
Submitted by lpahtillah on November 11, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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