Analysis of Don't Take This Personally
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Don't get upset.
Or become offended to take my comments,
Said to you...
As meant intentionally,
To be without motivation.
Vacant of inspiring incentive.
You have come a long way,
From being the dimmest light in darkness.
To become easier to understand and find,
Potential.
A potential once thought impossible,
To achieve.
Yet lie to have you believe,
It was near and close within your reach.
But now that it has begun to dawn on you,
Not to feel threatened by common sense.
Used.
And by others to seem magically done.
As if mysteriously for them to accomplish.
You...
And by yourself have awaken,
With a thought you admit is your own.
'Oh...
I'm not offended by your comments at all.
I had been too afraid to acknowledge,
The occurrence had been a painless...
And effortless endeavor to accomplish.
I was told it would ultimately create,
My asking questions.
Never satisfied by answers I am given.'
Well...
That's not a rumor.
Whoever told you that,
Probably had been wounded by fiction.
And when confronted by truth told to hear,
Felt victimized...
When their eyes and ears opened.
Finding too much reality free of charge.
'What do you mean... FREE!?'
Truth and the reality of it is free.
People only pay to be duped and hoodwinked.
With a crediting to indebt themselves,
To delusion and the expense of denial.
Look around.
Conflict, division, hatred and racism,
Are creations meant to deceive the mindless!
Check it out,
Those poor to assume...
They were born to live unfortunate lives
Remain to stay beggers.
Providing jobs for the ones,
Keeping them to feel that way.
While using their grief as comic relief!
'That's not true.'
Okay.
Name one thing you bought,
Had a label on it that said...
MADE WITH UTMOST HONESTY.
GUARANTEED TO SATISFY AND END,
UNWARRANTED SUSPICIONS.
'That wouldn't be profitable.'
To who or whom?
The crooks and thieves?
Oh...
And don't take this personally.
All of us.
You me and everyone,
Are encouraged to be corrupted.
That's why many fear to hear truth.
Or have it taught to their children.
Take abortion!
Today...
Abortion is being outlawed everywhere.
But guns to buy are purposely meant,
To kill people. End lives!
You can not call this craze, madness.
It's a profitable making mental disease.
Defended as an entitlement!
'What are we doing to ourselves?'
Loving the hypocrisy.
And the pomp and circumstance of ignorance.
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Metre | 1101 10101011110 111 1101000 1101010 101010010 111011 110011010 10110010101 010 0010110100 101 1111101 111010111 11111011111 111101101 1 01101110001 111000111010 1 01011010 101101111 1 11010111011 1111011010 001011010 01000101010 11111100001 11010 10101101110 1 11010 010111 1001110110 0101011111 1100 1110110 101110111 11111 100101111 1010111101 101001101 101000011010 101 1001010010 10101101010 111 11101 1011101001 01111 0101101 1011111 1101111001 111 1 11111 10101111 111100 0111001 0100010 11011000 1111 0101 1 01111000 111 11010 101011010 11101111 11111110 1010 01 010110110 111111001 111011 11111110 101000101001 010110100 111101001 1000100 0010101100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 2,372 |
Words | 496 |
Sentences | 62 |
Stanzas | 15 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 8, 8, 8, 8, 1, 7, 7, 1, 6, 1, 9, 8, 1, 2 |
Lines Amount | 81 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 122 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Written on April 15, 2023
Submitted by lpahtillah on April 15, 2023
Modified on April 18, 2023
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