Analysis of Answered Prayers

Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)



The wait,
May take time.
And the doing of it stays fixed on your mind.
But keep your faith strong.
All day and night long.

If someone who annoys.
As though to enjoy the doing of it.
To then begin to ignore you.
Not only your presence.
And everything else you do too?
But purposely done,
To refuse making eye contact.
Or being anywhere near you.

Know yourself to be among those blessed.

Feeling this to remember.
It is never too late to celebrate,
The mysterious ways God moves to remove...
A pain felt to feel it hated.
Inflicted by someone wishing,
To stay on both your nerves and aspirations!


Scheme AXXBB XXCXCXXC X XAXXXX
Poetic Form Etheree  (25%)
Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 01 111 00101111111 11111 11011 11101 1110101011 11011011 110110 0101111 11001 1011011 1101011 101110111 1011010 111011110 00100111101 01111110 0101110 1111110010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 597
Words 132
Sentences 16
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 5, 8, 1, 6
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 116
Words per stanza (avg) 28
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Written on October 11, 2023

Submitted by lpahtillah on October 11, 2023

Modified by lpahtillah on October 17, 2023

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