Analysis of Mistakes Made
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
What really are mistakes claimed to make?
Besides alibis and excuses made.
Getting to create better everyday.
Some heard are so ridiculous,
Leaving those who disbelieve them...
Remembering the lies told and meant to use.
To excuse the children who do it.
But the adults unknowing,
A lie to tell.
Then dismiss the truth to be as is.
When nowhere near them,
Is innocence that appears.
Proves these days,
That many are not listening to pay attention...
To what to them is being said.
Yet can tell anyone,
Two or three weeks later...
What the liar wore.
Their height and color of shoes,
Eyes and hair.
Doing this with an image given.
That compares to a fictioned hero!
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJEKLMNMOPQRMS |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110101111 011000101 1010110101 11110100 10110011 01000110111 101010111 1001010 0111 101011111 1111 1100101 111 1101110011010 11111101 11110 111110 10101 1101011 101 101111010 10110110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 664 |
Words | 139 |
Sentences | 16 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 22 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 519 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 118 |
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