Analysis of Externally Viewed
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Who is it that really knows,
Which way detached minds...
Accepting acts of corruption and crimes.
Will come together to define,
Normalcy.
With a meaningful understood,
Understanding to comprehend.
In today's chaotic times to debate it.
Who is it that has stopped,
A popping of balloons.
To let the helium out.
With a doing to realize,
A victory to celebrate...
Is a little premature to do.
If decisions are made,
Before participants are announced.
As to who qualifies to participate in a race.
From an identified homemade craze,
Is this point of view.
Without binoculars used.
Zooming in close to scope it!
This stuff staged with jokes to say,
Is underplayed to manipulate.
Quicker than a magician,
Can pull a rabbit from a top hat...
Capable to rap.
Better than an urban street hustler.
Who is it that comfortably stays to sit,
Anticipating to expect...
The prioritizing of their interests,
Finally decided to leave them feeling...
Happiness to express.
To know it shown by those debating,
Truth and reality eye to eye have met.
Who is it that really knows,
Which way detached minds...
Accepting acts of corruption,
And crimes of all kinds will go to find...
Stability, thinking and common sense to use.
Proves could and can be done.
When one who has been picked to sit,
In a position of leadership yet unfit.
Is removed for being mentally incompetent.
If...
More come to agree,
What they refer to as having a normalcy...
Has been a delusion ill-defined,
By the one they chose to follow...
To accept and praise his crazy ways.
Believing him to pretend to be...
Out of his mind.
Being debated from time to time,
By those who will not admit...
He made them all addicted to perform,
As if they too were out of their minds.
But not to know...
His actions they would find entertaining,
Was not an act of him being out of his mind!
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Metre | 1111101 11011 0101101001 11010101 100 1010001 010101 00101011011 111111 010101 1101001 1010110 0100110 10100111 101011 010100101 111101010001 11010111 11111 0101001 1001111 1111111 10011010 1010010 110101011 10011 1011101100 11111000111 0100101 001001110 1001011110 100101 111111010 101011111 1111101 11011 01011010 011111111 010010010111 110111 11111111 00010110101 1011101000100 1 11101 110111100100 110010101 10111110 101011101 010110111 1111 100101111 1111101 1111010101 111101111 1111 110111010 111111101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,832 |
Words | 384 |
Sentences | 38 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 9, 10, 7, 9, 15 |
Lines Amount | 58 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 236 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 54 |
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