Analysis of What's Up
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
These days as they are to be.
To observe the witnessing,
People campaigning...
In support to endorse,
Being deceived by thieves to believe...
Them to be,
Wholesome, honest.
And made victims misunderstood,
For their sincerity to misunderstand,
They are not robbers hiding in the 'hoods'...
Leeching off the innocent.
With a telling of their crooked lies.
That's 'What's Up!'
Left to leave where it is to ignore.
Not to be 'Down With It!'
You feel me?
When enough becomes enough,
To have had enough?
Why pretend waving hands in the air,
Like you just don't care.
Attempting to stay funky,
With a stench that stinks to the Heaven above.
And people who seem incapable to notice,
What's up these days.
Never will recognize a tommow.
Coming to go and leaving them left...
Unaware as to what happened!
And...
How sad is that?
If I were you,
I wouldn't look back at it.
Then become attracted,
With a slow addiction...
To the wondering of why?
As if a drug seeking a reply,
Or a response to a question...
Asking what's up from the ones,
Messed up in the head!
If I were you,
I would trade in that empathy you have...
For something more common.
Like...
Taking up residence in the jungles of Amazon!
Exploring to adventure,
What pioneering reality offers.
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (38%) |
Metre | 1111111 1010100 10010 001101 100111101 111 1010 0110001 1101001001 1111010001 110100 101011101 111 111111101 111111 111 1010101 11101 101101001 11111 0101110 10111101001 010110100110 1111 1011001 101101011 0111110 0 1111 1101 1101111 101010 101010 1010011 110110001 10011010 1011101 11001 1101 1110110011 110110 1 1011000010110 0101010 10101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,248 |
Words | 268 |
Sentences | 30 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 16, 6, 5, 11, 7 |
Lines Amount | 45 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 190 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 44 |
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