Analysis of Criminal Reflections
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Criminal reflections.
To reject them to accept.
Or expect from the neck up.
The effectiveness of of accusations,
Are more than just alleged.
Leaving them left and caught.
In a trapping of their own mindset.
To refuse this taught.
And normalized as a way of life.
Lived to believe to defend at their best.
Although insist to persist,
Of having a consciousness innocent.
And unaware of an image,
That matches them with a perfect fit.
Regardless of their attempts to dismiss.
The events and activities,
From birth taught and permitted to exist.
To have it heard to hear from them repeated,
Of having no acknowledgement...
That a doing of crimes to undermine others.
Had the permission and consent,
With it done to do...
By any means necessary to refuse to hear,
Themselves to have been...
The cause and reason,
A quality of life would be better to appetite.
If they destroy the main ingredient.
For something more suitable to like.
Yet...
That had not been taught to teach.
What that 'suitable' way of life should be.
Before and or after,
They took it upon themselves...
To destroy humanity!
With a consciousness to declare innocence!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 100010 1011101 1011011 0010011010 111101 101101 00101111 10111 01010111 1101101111 101101 1100100100 0011110 110110011 0101101101 00100100 1110010101 11111111010 11010100 10101111010 10010001 11111 110110010111 01111 01010 0100111110110 1101010100 110110011 1 1111111 1110011111 010110 1110101 1010100 10100101100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,134 |
Words | 231 |
Sentences | 26 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 7, 11, 7 |
Lines Amount | 35 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 223 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 49 |
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