Analysis of Unfit
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Dressed to impress.
In suits tailored made.
Giving image and status to address.
Yet...
Intelligence to have it.
A mind to use connected to common sense.
Is not shown to be known,
Publicly expressed.
Without doubt to convince.
Stringed puppets can dance.
Done to forget their heads are hollow.
Or thick as wood.
And painted to represent,
An entertaining human being.
Performing.
With strings pulled.
By someone behind the scenes unseen.
Although muppets,
Not puppets.
Can attract the same audience.
And them distracted.
Even though the muppet,
Sits between two clowns.
Also dressed to impress.
While they support what the muppet says.
With hope the people vote and not notice,
How serious this performance is.
With it wished the people,
Select this nonsense...
As the best,
To elect to represent their interests.
Regardless,
How mentally unfit...
Muppets, puppets or string pullers can be.
Today?
Nearing the year 2023...
Many accept progress,
As a backward movement made.
Paying homage to a past.
To romanticize their ancestors escape,
Away to find a better place to live.
And greeted they were with opened arms.
Not a word of English,
Could they write or read.
Immigrants all.
But...
Of an accepted and familiar ancestry.
Today?
Nearing the year 2-0-23?
TWENTY TWENTY-THREE!
People seek to be entertained.
And not be reminded,
That life to live is serious business.
Once fiction interferes to delude reality?
Truth becomes the threat and enemy to fear!
Making unfit mentalities crazed,
Role models to follow.
And cheered and praised,
As tomorrow's leaders!
What had been yesterday 'unfit'?
Today most are craving,
The appetite to be in the limelight.
Honored for their heroic,
And thoughtless...
Absent of mind use achievements!
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (34%) |
Metre | 1101 01101 101001011 1 0100111 01110101101 111111 10001 011101 11011 110111110 1111 010101 10101010 010 111 11010101 110 110 10101100 01010 101010 10111 101101 110110101 1101010110 110010101 111010 01110 101 101101110 010 110001 101011111 01 1001 10011 1010101 1010101 101011001 0111010111 010101101 101110 11111 1001 1 110100010100 01 1001 10101 1011101 011010 1111110010 1100110110 10101010011 100111 110110 0101 10110 1111001 011110 01011001 1011010 010 10111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,735 |
Words | 348 |
Sentences | 49 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 9, 8, 17, 13, 12, 6 |
Lines Amount | 65 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 228 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
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Written on November 23, 2022
Submitted by lpahtillah on November 23, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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