Analysis of Taking Centuries To Face
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Why should it take,
Centuries to face...
Truth for what it is.
It appears everywhere.
Going nowhere to disappear.
And senseless it is,
For the many defending themselves against it.
When pretending to delude and fiction,
A truth that isn't.
With a claiming to protect,
Their right to be upset.
They feel a being threatened.
By those who object to reject,
What has been fantasized...
Has clearly begun to ruin a way of life,
To ignore the truth of it.
The go out of their way to blame and claim,
Truth is the cause and reason...
Why today's children,
Are being indoctrinated to believe...
What they see on the internet.
Done to validate everywhere on the streets.
Should be censored to protect,
A childhood already exposed by reality.
Whose trying to keep,
Who from what and why?
Since truth does not deceive or lie.
Although...
Attempts are tried.
And the buying of the best medication,
If not time released.
Can be an expensive investment,
To prevent and keep...
Truth away to stay that way permanently.
'What is the problem?'
'It's all this talk about truth.
And that is the problem,
Causing mental illness.'
'And all this time,
Many had begun to believe...
It had been fiction to delude and lies told!
There is nowhere today anyone can go.
To just stay crazed.
Alone and by themselves.
You know...
Isolated.
Without affecting anyone else.
With a doing of it appropriately.'
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Metre | 1111 10011 11111 10110 101101 01011 101001001011 1010101010 01110 1010101 111101 1101010 11110101 11110 110011100111 1010111 0111111101 1101010 10110 1100100101 1111010 1110010101 1110101 0101001110 11011 11101 11110111 1 0111 0010101010 11101 111010010 10101 10111111000 11010 1111011 011010 101010 0111 10101101 11110101011 111011011 1111 010101 11 100 01010101 10101101000 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,392 |
Words | 296 |
Sentences | 37 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 19, 10, 1, 3, 10 |
Lines Amount | 48 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 177 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 40 |
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Written on October 15, 2022
Submitted by lpahtillah on October 15, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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