Analysis of Sleep
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
No one can lose.
What isn't theirs to miss.
Yet told to hear,
A getting with a need for more of it...
Has valuable benefits.
Noticed to come,
When sleep to get...
Puts less stress on the mind.
Done to find,
Everytime one leaves behind...
Curiosity.
And a nagging unrelenting temptation to be,
Nosey.
With this to have it known,
By someone who has to tell who they saw...
Leaving Happy Hour at a neighborhood bar.
But to have claimed to home sick.
In bed getting rest.
After co-workers they work with,
Heard their boss announcing it!
'Oh no.
I can not believe.
Anyone would call me this late.
Hello!
Who is this?'
'Will you stop fooling around.
You won't believe who I saw tonight.
Claiming to be sick.
And home in bed getting rest and sleep.
Guess!'
'Do you know what time it is?'
'Yes.
Yes, I do.
But why would you want to know,
What time it is?
You told me just yesterday,
No one can lose...
What isn't theirs to get to miss.
And I thought this news to lose,
You would miss then blame me for it.'
'Look...
Wasn't it yesterday,
You were telling me...
It was sleep I needed more.
To relief myself,
Of pettiness that causes my stress.
What at this hour of night,
Do you believe I was trying to do?'
'AM I there?
What do you expect me to believe,
If I am here and not there to see it?
Geessshhh.
Some people.
Including you.
Are so ungrateful and thoughtless.
And never satisfied to appreciate,
People like me...
Going out of their way.
Trying to keep a 'FRIEND' informed.
Well, you know what?
This will be the last time,
I will let you take me for granted.
Goodnight.
And go back to whatever it was,
You are trying to do to convince me of it.'
'I don't believe this!'
'YOU?
How do you think I feel?
And I sat in my car for at least three hours.
Watching your friend deceive the both of us!'
'Hang up.
Give me a dial tone.'
'No...
You go first.
I'm the one,
Needing a reason not to call you again.'
'You know how childish you sound?'
'No.
And, I'm not going to listen to you be one.
I ain't got time for your nonsense.
Latah!'
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111 110111 1111 0101011111 1100100 1011 1111 111101 111 101101 0100 001001001011 1 111111 111111111 10101010101 1111111 01101 10110111 1110101 11 11101 1011111 01 111 1111001 110111101 10111 010110101 1 1111111 1 111 1111111 1111 111110 1111 11011111 0111111 11111111 1 10110 10101 1111101 1011 110011011 1111011 1101111011 111 111011101 1111011111 1 110 0101 11010010 010101010 1011 101111 10110101 1111 111011 111111110 1 01111011 111011101111 11011 1 111111 011011111110 1011010111 11 110101 1 111 101 10010111101 1111011 1 011101101111 11111110 1 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 2,072 |
Words | 495 |
Sentences | 69 |
Stanzas | 13 |
Stanza Lengths | 20, 5, 5, 1, 9, 8, 17, 1, 4, 2, 4, 1, 4 |
Lines Amount | 81 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 115 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Written on May 15, 2022
Submitted by lpahtillah on May 15, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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