Analysis of The Worst Of Times
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Could it be,
What has be described by many...
The worst of times,
To live in?
And have these times,
Compared to others...
Like none other they have ever seen.
Then have it heard,
By those who say...
Better yet will be these times,
If the ones they have picked...
To sit in leadership positions,
Are given more time proving themselves...
Incompetent and juvenile dependent.
Will awaken one day and see to believe,
Adults they are not.
Yet with kept assumptions to pretend to be.
This 'eventually' will become enough,
For them to receive...
The message.
It's not others who have messed things up.
Done to point fingers at one another.
It has been their childish nonsense.
Covered up to smother,
With a dressing to appear...
To be adults imitating the act of this.
While defending everything they do,
As if children still in elementary school.
Determined to get approval and attention.
Until...
A substitute teacher,
Arrives into the classroom late.
After a visit from a psychiatrist to announce,
They all should take time to enjoy recess!
'How much time should we take?'
'That depends on whether or not,
Your assigned teacher has been cured...
From an alcohol addition.
And has been cured of all symptoms,
Of being left permanently crazed!'
'That's not fair.
What about our B's and C's?'
'B. U. C. the light one day.
Leaders!
Dismissed.
Go play with yourselves!'
'And...
Where should we go to do that?!'
'Please.
Please do not tempt me.
I am a Christian.
Faithful and devoted!'
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111 11101110 0111 110 0111 01110 111011101 1111 1111 1011111 101111 11010010 110111001 01000100010 10101101101 01111 11101010111 10100010101 11101 010 111011111 1111011010 11111010 101110 1010101 11011000111 10101011 1110100101 010110100010 01 01010 0101011 10010100100101 1111110101 111111 10111011 10110111 1110010 01111110 110110001 111 10110101 1110111 10 01 11101 0 1111111 1 11111 11010 100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,481 |
Words | 312 |
Sentences | 42 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 34, 1, 5, 2, 4, 2, 4 |
Lines Amount | 52 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 161 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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