Analysis of Priorities Kept To Keep

Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)



Doing all you can at the best you can do.
For someone else and others too.
Without complaints or excuses made.
Yet this to you is not displayed.
Delayed or anticipated to come your way.
Proving respect to give it understood,
Has not been taught to them to understand...
How important it is not to take for granted,
People who choose to do without asking...
Are not waiting around,
Wishing for a bone thrown to retrieve.
Hoping to receive a special treat.

And this to view should be a lesson learned.
To remember not to expect,
A thoughtfulness from anyone unconscious.
Knowing priorities to keep them had,
Is your responsibility to change.
On a daily basis when necessary.
Long gone are those days,
People are heard to admit to themselves...
Of showing negligence to someone else!
This to hear does not happen.


Scheme AABBXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXX
Poetic Form
Metre 10111101111 1110101 010110101 11111101 01101001111 100111101 111111101 101011111110 1011110110 111001 101011101 101010101 0111110101 10101101 010011010 1001001111 110010011 1010101100 11111 1011101101 110100111 1111110
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 789
Words 142
Sentences 16
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 12, 10
Lines Amount 22
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 321
Words per stanza (avg) 71
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Submitted by lpahtillah on June 17, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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