Analysis of Midas Touch
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Successful and effective.
Has been the acceptance of deception.
And a kept belief,
Corrupted thieves to be...
Today's heros of all humanity.
Observed to witness,
The supporting to endorse...
Those continuing being misled,
By misdeeds fed to feed.
The fiction that deludes,
Minds unconscious.
Removed from the truth.
And stripped away to completely distance,
Reality and common sense.
Left to leave blinded behind,
A doing that undermines a way of life.
To deliberately intend,
Eliminating entitlements...
Given freely to them.
Had this image of a King Midas touch,
Gone to cheer on the ones who prolong...
Claiming themselves victims.
Threatened by the increasing,
Faces of ethnic diversity?
That has created the greatest democracy.
These days of envy.
And revealing insecure jealousies.
Used without it to mention,
Division.
Bigotry and discriminating hatred.
Has been,
More an effective weapon.
Successfully used to pretend it isn't.
Yet observed to witness on a daily basis.
More restrictions applied,
To the lives of those living their lives.
Denied to rise to higher heights.
Afraid that people,
Non-white of various ethnic diversities.
Are more competent and less insecure.
Without a pretentiousness to defend.
Or expensive weapons.
Kept to protect,
Against a truth to detect its presence!
Even if such events,
May just be...
Hypothetically intended to suspect!
Since...
In these tumultuous days.
With evidence and proof displayed.
Who really knows why some people,
Seem to wilfully volunteer...
Their mental instabilities.
Claim to blame,
On their inability to control and prevent...
Images fading that represents,
Themselves as the face of democracy.
Being replaced without public debate.
Or approval that takes consideration!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0100010 1100101010 00101 010111 0110110100 01110 0010101 101001001 101111 010101 110 01101 0101101010 100101 1111001 0101010111 10100001 01000100 101011 1110101101 111101101 100110 1010010 101100100 110100100100 11110 0010100100 1011110 010 1000010010 11 1101010 01001101110 101110101010 101001 101111011 01111101 01110 111100101 1110001100 0101101 101010 1101 0101101110 101101 111 0100010101 1 011001 11000101 11011110 1110001 1100100 111 110100101001 10010101 0110110100 101011001 1010110010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,737 |
Words | 325 |
Sentences | 41 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 19, 14, 11, 15 |
Lines Amount | 59 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 348 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 66 |
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