Analysis of Our Best To Do
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Doing our best to do it,
Is becoming an every day task.
And 24/7.
With each step to take.
As time quickly passes.
Leaving no one to look back,
At mistakes to make to correct them made.
Gone to fade,
Are those procrastinating slow pace days.
And challenges to schedule,
For a more convenient appropriate time.
To make up our minds,
Whether our best to do to leave behind...
That which can not be changed.
In the hopes that what remains the same,
Will deliver a different result.
If we pretend not to notice,
Our addiction and love for repetition.
And with a sharing of this enjoyed,
By others annoyed.
But...
For whatever the reason that 'fix' to get,
Is needed is...
Few are willing to admit,
A better life to live it...
Is not a given.
But a commitment to do it,
Not to hear it said but a doing done...
24/7.
Scheme | ABCDEFGGHIJKLMNOPQRRSTUAAQAQV |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10101111 1010110011 0 11111 111010 1011111 1011110111 111 110100111 0100110 10101001001 111101 10101111101 111111 001110101 1010010001 11011110 10010011010 010101101 11001 1 1100101111 1101 1110101 0101111 11010 10010111 1111110101 1 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 781 |
Words | 153 |
Sentences | 18 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 29 |
Lines Amount | 29 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 614 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 153 |
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