Analysis of Long Term Stir



Into a warm and inviting kitchen.
A place in many homes,
Where people gather to go...
To sit and meet,
Family members, neighbors and friends.
Along with others,
There to share and enjoy to meet.

Treated with snacks.
And a pleasant hospitality.
With a doing to talk about this and that.
Leaving no one to feel,
It unnatural or unwelcomed to join in the act.

So accustomed and familiar,
Had been these times...
To once experience them lived.
An exchanging of laughter and fun.
No one felt it negative.

Then these times came,
Dramatically to change.
To now and today become,
A long term to stir up lies told to tell.
On anyone.
For no other reason but to chew the fat.
With the wish to want it hoped,
A doing of that will bring anyone back.
To share the latest gossip and news.
Juicy and mouth watering.
Done to choose and victimized,
A family member, friend or not.
Chosen to abuse.

And the few who do decide to return,
With gossip to add to a sizzling hot pot.
Pouring tea mixed with delicious B.S.
Stirred up to have lips dripping,
As more deception no one regrets.
To pass this nonsense on to someone else.

'Tell me this,
Where on Earth...
Did you get the ingredients for this stuff?
It is so delicious.
I have become addicted to it.
Where did you get the recipe?'

'You are the first who has told me that.
The others who use to join me in the kitchen,
For some reason,
Have not returned to come back.
Well...
Since you asked.
It's homemade.
I added and stirred up,
Some tasteful stuff I had forgotten I had.
From a long gone past.
Then remembered peppered spice,
Not too hot.
But in my mind, for whatever the reason,
It came back to reminisce to last.
And now all I do,
Is to keep it stirred up.
I'm glad you like it as much as I do.
If you want more,
This I've got for you!'

'Which way do you keep stirring it?
Slow and clockwise?
Or fast the other way?'

'I like it slow and counter-clockwise.
The taste,
Seems so much better that way.
It allows me to remember.
And not forget a single thing.'

'Sure.
I'll have more.
The others don't know what they're missing.'

'Whether they do or not,
This pot will stay hot.
For as long as possible.
Let's pour more tea.'

'Certainly.
What should I say to the others.
You know,
When something is as delicious as this...
It will be difficult to keep to myself.'

'Don't worry about it.
What I have done to do,
You will discover is not new at all.
And with you,
Enjoying it the way you say you do...
I will always find a way,
To keep what I've create updated.'

'Don't be so modest.
I could never duplicate this like you.'

'Try.
At least attempt it.'
There's nothing more that I want,
Than to be flattered.'

'Will you stop joking.'

'You know,
I use to do that a lot.
Until I was made convinced,
The doing of it was at my expense!
And check this out,
In my own kitchen!'


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Poetic Form
Metre 0101001010 010101 1101011 1101 100101001 01110 11100111 1011 00100100 10101101101 101111 10100101011001 10100010 1111 11010011 101011001 1111100 1111 010011 1100101 0111111111 110 11101011101 1011111 0101111101 110101001 1001100 1110100 010010111 10101 001111101 110111010011 101110101 1111110 110101101 111101111 111 111 11100100111 111010 110101011 11110100 110111111 010111110010 1110 1101111 1 111 111 110011 11011101011 10111 1010101 111 1011110010 11110111 01111 111111 1111111111 1111 11111 11111101 101 110101 11110101 01 1111011 10111010 01010101 1 111 010111110 101111 11111 1111100 1111 100 11111010 11 1101101011 1111001111 110011 111111 1101011111 011 0101011111 111101 111101010 11110 1110100111 1 11011 1101111 11110 11110 11 1111101 0111101 0101111101 0111 01110
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 2,818
Words 653
Sentences 74
Stanzas 17
Stanza Lengths 7, 5, 5, 13, 6, 6, 19, 3, 5, 3, 4, 5, 7, 2, 4, 1, 6
Lines Amount 101
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 124
Words per stanza (avg) 31
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Written on July 16, 2022

Submitted by lpahtillah on July 16, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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