Analysis of One Public Embarrassment
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
It has taken,
Just one public embarrassment.
To allow the creation,
Of wide spread chaos and division.
Among the people following along,
A craze intentionally made to begin...
Distrust between themselves.
Without truth to use as proof and evidence.
Leaving the people unconscious to fiction,
An image to delude...
Is enough to refuse reality as is.
Dire is this situation.
As a quality of life,
Is sent to gutters to expect will survive.
And yet one who lies, frauds and deceives,
Has many believing...
It is up to justice,
Nowhere near soon to be applied.
Has the courage enough,
To prevent and stop this ongoing stuff...
From effectively ruining,
Their spoiled entitled rights to live lives...
Without one who embarrasses,
This quality of greatness taken for granted.
For a narcissistic ego to please.
And heard declaring publicly,
An opportunity to destroy everything.
If not chosen again to lead,
A job not finished to ensure it done.
Yet left to leave,
Everyone cheering and applauding,
Their own demise!
Not in disguise.
But right before the ears and eyes,
To hear and believe to see...
Not the possibilities but an expectation,
Delivered with a fascination that ends...
The fiction of their fantasies.
Reality and the truth of it,
Is as is to be.
To be believed or not to happen.
Without assumptions to allege the facts!
Repeated to revisit throughout history.
Done to rewrite images of heros.
Or the depiction,
Of false victories to claim them!
Reviewed to imitate!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110 11100100 1010010 111100010 0101010001 01010001101 010101 01111110100 1001010110 110101 1011011011 111010 1010011 11110101101 01111101 110010 111110 1111101 101001 101011101 10100100 110101111 01110100 110011010110 100101011 01010100 1010010110 11100111 0111010111 1111 10100010 1101 1001 11010101 1100111 10010011010 0101001011 01011100 1000111 11111 110111110 0101010101 010101001100 1101100110 10010 11100111 01110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,476 |
Words | 296 |
Sentences | 29 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 11, 18, 9, 9 |
Lines Amount | 47 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 291 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 62 |
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