Analysis of It's A Long Ride Back
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
It is a long ride back.
From being wrong to not admit it.
And told that to stubbornly stay,
Away from the right road to take.
It can be a long ride back.
By anyone.
Who chooses to ignore,
What someone else to them had said.
With a wanting to prove advice to them given,
Is neither appreciated.
Nor accepted to assume,
The advice giver is rumored to be a fool.
Unfortunately in these days and times we live,
Many who have obtained experience...
Are seldom the ones given respect to get it.
And considered, instead,
Crazy in the head.
Leaving advice to think twice about it given,
Left to leave as is.
Ignored.
Those who have had their mistakes to make,
Over and over again.
Are not too often the ones to recommend,
The right path to take to avoid mistakes.
But suggesting to listen,
Has more of a benefit than not.
And the doing of it,
May help one stop to think.
Done with a preventing,
Accusations to make and judgements to pass.
Afterall...
It is a long ride back.
From a wrong thing done.
And reluctant to admit,
The being told that.
By someone quick to have been called a fool!
Only to discover,
Who that fool really is!
Scheme | Abxc adxedxxf xxbeedgx cxxxdxbxxx xAdbxfxg |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110111 110111011 01111001 01101111 1110111 110 110101 1111111 101011011110 1100100 1010101 001101101101 010000110111 1011010100 110011001111 001001 10001 100111101110 11111 01 111110111 1001001 1111001101 0111110101 1010110 111010011 001011 111111 110010 0101101011 10 110111 10111 0010101 01011 111111101 101010 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,128 |
Words | 253 |
Sentences | 24 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 8, 8, 10, 8 |
Lines Amount | 38 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 174 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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