Analysis of Ending Illusions To Delude
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Ending illusions to delude.
This to include as a possibility,
One should exclude mentally as probable.
And refuse to waste the time to believe,
What has been created to deceive reality...
Would be a better choice to choose,
If one already accepts lies to them told.
Yet has chosen to live,
A life few others know they also can expect...
To permit themselves to be victims of denial.
In comfort without anyone else,
Attempting to destroy a peace of mind...
Everyone claims a want and need to find.
But somehow...
They rather keep the doing of it,
Kept strictly to fiction.
Done to delude the illusion,
Of what truth is to create more escapes...
Associated with whatever medications,
Many are prescribed to take...
Chasing rainbows.
In the hope to catch fantasies.
And the truth of them before they fade away!
With a doing done to blame and accuse,
Anyone suspiciously looking...
Peacefully stress free, happy and completely,
Sober!
Without any sign of being addicted,
To drugs or alcohol.
Or...
Heard to express having being involved,
In disappointing relationships.
To have had in the past.
'What is wrong with people like that?'
'What do you mean,
People like that?
How should people like 'that' be?'
'And how are we?'
'Complaining and whining,
About everything all the time.'
'Maybe they live,
Without illusions to delude...
The deceiving of the truth!'
'What a sick and dysfunctional,
Way to live reality.
Completely messed up in the head.
Having no complaints.
Smiling and joking.
What's normal about that?'
'Remember when smoking weed was illegal?'
'There is a new place they just opened up.
Now there are three within one block.
How much more normal,
Are they trying to get you and me to be?'
'What?
That doesn't make sense.
What happened to the war on drugs?'
'Hey...
You fight your battles.
While I enjoy mine.'
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Poetic Form | Etheree (23%) Tetractys (22%) |
Metre | 10010101 1101100100 11011001100 0011101101 11101010110 11010111 11010011111 111011 011101110101 1010111101010 01001101 0101010111 101010111 11 110101011 110110 11010010 1111101101 0100110010 1010111 101 00111100 00111011101 1010111001 10010010 10011100010 10 01101110010 11110 1 1101101001 0010010 111001 11111011 1111 1011 1110111 0111 010010 0110101 1011 01010101 0010101 10100100 11110 01011001 10101 10010 110011 01011011010 1101111101 11110111 11110 11101110111 1 11011 11010111 1 11110 11011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,857 |
Words | 389 |
Sentences | 47 |
Stanzas | 12 |
Stanza Lengths | 29, 4, 1, 3, 1, 2, 3, 6, 1, 4, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 60 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 117 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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