Analysis of Pearls 2



Warmth of a generous heart trustingly and freely given
Mill-grist for the fickle tart, by two-timing abuse driven
Seizing on the goodness found, these miscreant deceivers
Exploit and then go underground, they are miserly receivers
"Cast not your pearls before swine" the declared admonition
Lest they trample and malign the superb without cognition

Renowned art and literature, creative genius manifest
Reduced from grand to miniature through the philistine's smaller quest
Pedestrian and archaic, they are smugly giving short shrift
Conventionally prosaic, an attitude has patrons miffed
"Cast not your pearls before swine" the declared admonition
Lest they trample and malign the superb without cognition

A lucid, scintillating mind presenting rational reason
So much fatuity they find is to commonsense mere treason
The babbling, inane blatherskite: illiterate and impudent
This worthless palaver is trite stupidly dull and redundant
"Cast not your pearls before swine" the declared admonition
Lest they trample and malign the superb without cognition


Scheme aabbAA ccddAA aacxAA
Poetic Form
Metre 1101001101010 111010111100110 101010111001 10111011100010 1111011001010 111000100101010 011010000101010 01111100101101 0100001011101011 010000101101101 1111011001010 111000100101010 0101101010010 111111101110 0100011010001 11011110010010 1111011001010 111000100101010
Closest metre Iambic octameter
Characters 1,037
Words 155
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 6, 6, 6
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 49
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 294
Words per stanza (avg) 52
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Submitted on February 05, 2010

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Wallace Dean LaBenne

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