Analysis of Often To Wish
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
I can not be the only one,
Often to wish...
A being inappropriate,
Would do it to fix...
Telling someone,
Showing their disrespect...
To know better than to do it.
And overcome by this done,
Telling that someone...
GIVE UP THAT STUFF.
COME KISS 'MY' OLD BUTT.
AND DONT BE ASHAMED,
IF YOU BECOME ADDICTED TO IT!
To then have visions of ending conflicts.
As old folks are being arrested.
For disturbing the peace.
Yet having the police, teachers...
And leaders of all communities.
To begin to use that as their weapons.
Instead of pretending,
People running around...
Creating division and havoc.
Are in need of understanding.
And not mental therapy.
With it done to observe and see,
How their activities effect those elderly.
To become old and crazed themselves.
Today?
Many young people don't realize,
What they do to others...
Will follow them,
For the rest of their lives.
To permanently regret being disrespectful!
And besides...
A bared wrinkled butt,
Exposed publicly and told to kiss?
Should stick in one's mind.
To remember,
Is better to be and stay respectful.
Then to age,
With a want to wish to have one's butt kissed!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110101 1011 0100100 11111 101 10101 11101111 010111 1011 1111 11111 01101 110101011 1111011001 111110010 101001 11000110 010110100 1011111110 011010 101001 010010010 1011010 0110100 11110101 110100011100 10110101 01 10110110 111110 1101 101111 110000110010 001 01101 011000111 11011 1010 1101101010 111 1011111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,131 |
Words | 237 |
Sentences | 29 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 13, 14, 6, 8 |
Lines Amount | 41 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 218 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 49 |
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Written on July 21, 2022
Submitted by lpahtillah on July 21, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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