Analysis of A Better Innovator
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
I am not the one,
Who seeks approval and acceptance.
Nor do I wish,
Recognition for my assistance...
Freely given to you or anyone else.
There is nothing I do to choose,
To premeditated a competing...
In a hopeful competition.
To be judge by critics.
Deciding if my contributions,
I willfully volunteer.
With an introducing of comparisons.
That's your thing.
Not mine to know what I do is a choice.
Used to solicit other voices somewhere.
Could be a much better innovator.
After,
And not before...
Their plagiarism is recognized.
And me?
I don't have those concerns.
That will allow me to be deceiving.
Receive or leave what I do to offer behind.
Still I will remain to thank God,
I am blessed to live not to be so petty!
With a doing what I do,
Not to prove to anyone it can be done.
'Tell me...
Where is it that you do,
Began to start to come from?'
'I can only guess,
My parents had something to do with it.
And...
Since I wasn't there,
Your guess is as good as mine.'
Scheme | ABXBX XCAXDXD CXEFFXX GXC XXGHA GHX XXXEX |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (37%) |
Metre | 11101 110100010 1111 01011010 1010111101 11101111 101000010 0010010 111110 1011010 110001 1101010100 111 1111111101 1101010101 110110100 10 0101 1100110 01 111101 1101111010 011111111001 11101111 11111111110 1010111 1111101111 11 111111 0111111 11101 1101101111 0 11101 1111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 977 |
Words | 224 |
Sentences | 26 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 7, 7, 3, 5, 3, 5 |
Lines Amount | 35 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 105 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Written on January 16, 2023
Submitted by lpahtillah on January 16, 2023
Modified on March 05, 2023
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