Analysis of Forever Kept
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
No one blessed,
With breath to breathe temporarily.
Should be forever kept made to believe,
What has been stolen to possess.
To then,
Be given as gifts to their descendents.
Is theirs to own and keep eternally.
Nothing belongs to remain and stay as is,
Permanently.
With pretensions and status,
Attached as a limb.
To use whenever necessary.
Like extra power to have it.
And grab in emergencies.
These seekers of wishful immortality,
From birth
Assuming blessed to have this secretly.
Are hopelessly,
Driven on a mission...
That ultimately ends dramatically in the midst,
Of attempting to convince anyone...
Who has witnessed incompetence.
Of intended actions hollow of sense to make.
Knowing with it to observe,
Better it is...
Left to leave minds like this behind them.
Than it is to pretend,
Being among the chosen...
Has been a miracle bestowed.
With the ability to mend and heal,
Those incapable to fiction or delude...
A being gifted to self deceive.
Whether purposely or not.
Yet...
Done to please the expertise,
Imitated by fake makers.
Wishing with hope to prove,
Faith has a lot to do,
With a selling of a charade to masquerade it!
'You...
You are in need of saving.'
Saving?
I can bearly keep my checking account open.
Put that on your healing list.
To end and fix with a miracle quick.
And tell me,
What on Earth is forever kept.
Besides evolution!
Change.
To have little of that to add up to a dollar.
Scheme | XABXXXA CAXXADE AXAAFXFXXXCXXFXXXBX XEXXGD GH HFXXAXF XX |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (26%) |
Metre | 111 11110100 1101011101 11110101 11 1101111010 1111010100 10011010111 1000 1010010 01101 11010100 11010111 0100100 1101100100 11 0101111100 1100 101010 1100010100001 101010110 11100100 101010101111 1011101 1011 111111011 111101 1001010 11010001 1001001101 10100110101 010101101 1010011 1 111001 1001110 101111 110111 101010011011 1 1101110 10 11111100110 1111101 1101101001 011 11110101 01010 1 1110111111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,430 |
Words | 305 |
Sentences | 35 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 7, 19, 6, 2, 7, 2 |
Lines Amount | 50 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 158 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Written on April 29, 2023
Submitted by lpahtillah on April 29, 2023
Modified on April 29, 2023
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