Analysis of Where Stars Are Born
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Where stars are born.
And fresh crimes are permitted to commit.
Hair and make up glam squads arrive.
Early in the morning before the Sun rises.
These are 'selfie' taken days.
To ensure appearances made,
Are pleasing enough to attract viewers.
Whether the scene had been,
Where a crime took place.
Or strolling through a neighborhood,
Exchanging with the residents...
About paying exorbitant rent to slumlords.
Living in the suburbs in guarded communities.
Feasting to feed more greed,
Off of the backs of the needy.
Competing with rats for food to eat.
And where these people live,
To once have called them ghettos.
Poverty areas identified,
By the creation of zip codes?
Had then emblazoned upon the buildings,
Stars and symbols to represent...
Who they were.
And today,
The way they discriminate...
Is to take from those they have stolen from.
To declare it theirs to own.
With a doing to prove and show,
A suffering to have this accepted to believe...
They are not the masters of oppression.
Or the evil doers of misdeeds,
Victimizing continously...
Those living in urban cities.
Made to qualify for opportunities.
Created by those,
Who can neither read nor write.
But inherited the theft of their wealth,
From illiterate ancestors.
Illegitimately living anywhere they please.
Where stars are born corrupting laws.
And have turned fraud into an industry!
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Metre | 1111 0111010101 10111101 100010010110 111101 10101001 1100110110 100111 10111 1101010 01010100 01100100111 1000100100100 101111 11011010 010111111 011101 1111110 100100010 10010111 1101001010 1010101 110 001 011010 1111111101 1011111 10101101 0100111010101 1110101010 101010101 10001 11001010 111010100 01011 1110111 1010001111 1010010 1101011 11110101 0111011100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,360 |
Words | 267 |
Sentences | 29 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 12, 7, 18 |
Lines Amount | 41 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 270 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 56 |
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