Analysis of Shameless Braggadocio
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
A pretentiousness nearing,
The beginning...
Of its flip-flopping end.
Appears on the scene to be seen,
For its meaningless shallowness.
And followed,
By those hollow of consciousness.
Absent of common sense.
Dropped to the bottom of pits.
Where their shameless braggadocio,
Finally comes to sit to become...
A purposeless to rot nonsense.
And the ones victimized...
To have had told lies about their lives lived,
Deceived yet believed...
By critics, lost friendships.
With broken gone to never mend to heal,
Again.
Families as they were to remember them.
The ones intentionally victimized...
Will come to witness and see,
How God works in mysterious ways.
To expose those who chose wickedness,
With a choosing of unrelentless corruption.
And lies to tell to ruin themselves!
Now to seek forgiveness and empathy given.
'We were just joking with you.
Can't you take a joke?'
'Of course, I can.
I'm laughing now.
In a conservative kind of way!
Although...
Surprised I am,
My doing of it you have not noticed.
Wassup with that?
I've been waiting for a very long time,
To laugh this hysterically.'
'Are you being sarcastic?'
'Were your jokes meant to be laughed at?
Or with?
Either way,
You should by now be familiar...
With your teaching me to do both.
What did you expect from me?
Blaming accusations?
Tears?
Are you kidding?
Me? Sarcastic?
I'm loving every moment,
Of your enlightening insightful performance!'
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Poetic Form | Etheree (38%) Tetractys (28%) |
Metre | 0110 0010 111101 01101111 11100100 010 11101100 101101 1101011 1110010 100111101 01001110 001100 1111101111 01101 110110 1101110111 01 10011010101 0101000100 1111001 111001001 101111100 101011010 011111001 111010010010 1011011 11101 1111 1101 000100111 1 0111 1101111110 111 1110101011 111100 1110010 01111111 11 101 11111010 11101111 1110111 10010 1 1110 1010 11010010 11010010010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,413 |
Words | 288 |
Sentences | 40 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 12, 14, 2, 9, 1, 12 |
Lines Amount | 50 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 183 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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Written on July 27, 2023
Submitted by lpahtillah on July 27, 2023
Modified by lpahtillah on July 27, 2023
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