Analysis of Who Is More The Idiot
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Okay.
You had it your way.
Now let's play,
Who is more the idiot.
And, it's my turn to go first.
If a menace,
Already known to be tricky and slick.
Doing this for years.
To lie, fraud and deceive.
And getting attention repeatedly,
From people giving money to support...
Every move this menace does doing it.
And...
Think about this,
On a regular basis...
Is follow when announcing,
What it is people can expect him next to do.
For at least seven years or more.
Giving what he does,
To leave evidence and proof.
With the people left in awe.
Cheering and applauding,
Their quality of life approaching close...
From being destroyed and their sanity too.
Which would you pick to be more the idiot?
'Whew gee.
Why are you making your game so difficult?'
Okay.
I'll make it easier to say.
The answer is not multiple choice.
There is one menace. Right?
Doing what he does alone.
And supported to endorse his actions,
Are many allowing him with attention given.
To ruin their way of life with this known,
Told to them.
Watching him do this on a daily basis.
Not to guess but be warned about it.
For almost a decade.
Who would you pick to be more the idiot?
'Now I know why you made your game,
So difficult to play.
If you made the answer plural.
Like saying 'idiots'.
I would say the people.
Since one idiot alone,
Left to condone all the madness described?
Would be jailed and imprisoned.
With all that to admit observed to witness.
And...
I'm not one good at all playing,
Games of the mind hypothetically created.'
Either way,
Glad I am you're not easily duped.
I played this same game.
With a few other people.
And immediately I was labeled,
An unpatriotic nonconforming.
'That I can understand.
All of the games you and I play,
Are not meant to offend,
A way of life fictioned to delude reality.'
Exactly.
Not with an intentional purpose.
'Exactly.
Some people are quick without thinking,
To defend their beliefs.
As if children too sensitive not to know,
When a game on them is played.'
Tell me about it.
Everyday I'm learning that lesson.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1 11111 111 1110100 0111111 1010 0101111001 10111 111001 0100100100 1101010101 10011101101 0 1011 1010010 1101010 111101011111 11110111 10111 1110001 1010101 100010 1100110101 11001011001 11111110100 11 11110111100 1 11110011 010111001 111101 1011101 0010101110 1100101101010 1101111111 111 10111101010 111111011 11001 11111110100 11111111 110011 11101010 110100 111010 1110001 1101101001 1110010 11110101110 0 11111110 11010100010 101 111111001 11111 1011010 0010001110 100101 11101 11011011 111101 0111110110 010 111010010 010 110110110 101101 11101100111 1011111 11011 101110110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 2,046 |
Words | 450 |
Sentences | 54 |
Stanzas | 11 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 7, 13, 2, 13, 12, 6, 4, 2, 5, 2 |
Lines Amount | 71 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 142 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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