Analysis of Messed Up
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Many got their minds messed up.
Too many people got their minds messed up.
In these blind made days,
People have their eyes on self destruction.
As a normal daily function.
In these man-made days,
People have their minds on self destruction.
And for them a normal function.
Many got their minds messed.
Too many people got their minds messed up.
Many got their minds messed up.
Too many people got their minds messed up.
In these B.S. days,
Common sense does not exist.
Or consciousness permitted,
Long has gone.
Too many got their minds messed up.
By lies.
To deny them.
And many got their minds messed up.
By choosing to deceive as a choice to believe,
In fantasies fictioned.
In these B.S. days.
In these B.S. days.
In these B.S. days,
People are made to fear their own shadows.
In these B S. days.
Disrespect expected goes on.
People got their minds messed up.
Over someone's race and color.
Too many got their minds messed up.
Too many people got their minds messed up.
Many got their minds up.
Choosing,
To be played fools.
Scheme | AA bcc bcc dAAA Bxxx AxxaxdBBBxbx ax AAaxx |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (29%) |
Metre | 1011111 1101011111 01111 1011111010 10101010 01111 1011111010 01101010 101111 1101011111 1011111 1101011111 0111 1011101 1100010 111 11011111 11 1011 01011111 110101101101 01001 0111 0111 0111 101111111 01111 0101011 1011111 1011010 11011111 1101011111 101111 10 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,038 |
Words | 231 |
Sentences | 37 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 12, 2, 5 |
Lines Amount | 35 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 100 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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