Analysis of New Lows

Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)



Impossible it is becoming,
To step around and not notice...
The cautious and meticulous action taken,
That ensures the depth of new lows...
Are carefully marketed.
And to whom specifically sold.

Goodbye.
Fare-thee-well and so long,
Standards to value in hearts gone to move on.
Goodbye and farewell,
All those wishes of integrity to keep intact.
Goodbye.
Fare-thee-well,
Is the act of old fashion wholesomeness.

No more does it seem,
A reaching to prioritize one's self esteem...
Should be associated,
With an ethnic pride identified...
By a kept and witnessed dignity.

'Okay?
We get it.
You love yourself.
Move you all mountains!'

More are taught to teach,
Ignorance displayed to appreciate these days.
And...
Deceiving the truth to have lies believed,
Should be one's mission and goal...
Attempted to achieve.
With this done to do,
Guaranteeing progress made.
And a future to live it successfully.
Leaving humanity in the hands,
Of creators deluding fiction to depict...
A reality to live,
Imitating the non-existence of it.

And...
So goes those new lows to achieve,
The uselessness of common sense.
Gone.
Painlessly diminished.
Chemically removed,
As a purpose to serve thinking independently.

No thoughts are needed.
Once those new lows are downloaded,
To permanently dumbdown...
The thoughtless.
Defending to protect ignorance accepted,
As a quality of life envied to have and live it!


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Poetic Form
Metre 010011010 11010110 010001001010 10101111 1100100 01101001 1 111011 10110011111 101 1110101001101 1 111 1011110100 11111 01010101101 110100 11101010 101010100 1 111 1101 11110 11111 10001101011 0 0100111101 1111001 010101 11111 01011 00101110100 100100001 101001010101 01011 1000101011 0 11111101 011101 1 100010 10001 101011100100 11110 1111110 110001 010 010101100010 10100111011011
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,396
Words 275
Sentences 33
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 6, 8, 5, 4, 13, 7, 6
Lines Amount 49
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 156
Words per stanza (avg) 32
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Submitted by lpahtillah on April 20, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

1:23 min read
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