Analysis of Connected Emotions
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
To the mind and soul.
Connected to our hearts.
Emotions felt to feel and them told.
Can be heard to hear.
Although can not be shared.
Or felt by others to know.
And from all of the blessings,
God gifts us to give.
The one thing to us,
From birth to experience...
Not given.
Is how we feel to make it felt,
Our emotions.
By another.
Who may give to us their sympathy expressed.
And empathy to address.
Yet emotionally connected,
They with us can not be.
Although some may come to believe,
The doing is meant to keep secretly discreet!
Not true.
Why go through describing an issue.
To hear someone say,
'I understand.'
Okay.
That to express is routinely accepted.
But what is it 'felt' that goes understood?
'Why do you keep,
How you feel away from me?
No matter how much I care about you.'
You all up in my mind.
I was just thinking...
Are you able to feel the way I feel?
About anything?
'Uh...
No.'
Are we be able to share our emotions?
'We've never done that before.
Although we have at times,
Agreed we have felt the same way.
About certain things.'
If I should pinch myself right now,
Who would feel that more?
You or me?
'Huh?
Even if we pinched each other.
At the same time?
Still we would not feel,
How the other felt.
What brought this up!?'
Remember when you borrowed,
$20 from me a few years ago.
And promised to pay me back within a week.
After I told you,
Be sure you do that.
Because I needed that money to pay a bill?
'Yes.
Go on.'
Well...
What happened?
'I can't believe you are just now,
Bringing that up!
If you needed it that bad.
Why did you give it to me in the first place?
You want to know what happened?
This is what happened...
I was on my way to pay you back.
Like I promised to do.
I drove by your house.
All the lights were off.
When I saw you were burning candles.
So...
I thought you were setting up,
To have a romantic candlelight dinner.
Knowing how you like your peace.
Quietly to keep.
To do your thing.
And I spent that $20 believing,
The bill you had to pay...
Was for a low budget intimate night.
Then I drove away thinking,
That to do would be alright with you!'
'And...
You honestly felt that way?'
'Yeah.
Why would anyone,
On a full Moonlit night.
Curtains pulled wide-open.
And start to light candles?'
Maybe to get more light in the rooms,
Where that 'anyone' lives?
Because their electricity had been turned off.
Along with their landline telephone.
And cable!
'Wow.
What a vivid imagination you have.
Nothing like that,
Would have ever crossed my mind!
I'm gonna use that excuse myself one day!
That's a good one too.'
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (30%) Etheree (26%) |
Metre | 10101 0101101 010111011 11111 11111 1111011 0111010 11111 01111 1110100 110 11111111 10010 1010 11111110001 010011 10100010 111111 1111101 010111110001 11 111010110 1111 101 1 11011010010 111111101 1111 1110111 1101111011 111011 11110 1110110111 0110 1 1 111101110010 1101101 11111 01111011 01101 1111111 11111 111 1 10111110 1011 11111 10101 1111 010111 1101101 01011110101 10111 11111 011101101101 1 11 1 110 11011111 1011 1110111 11111110011 1111110 11110 111111111 111011 11111 10101 111101010 1 1110101 1100101010 1011111 10011 1111 0111010 011111 1101101001 1110110 11111111 0 1100111 1 1110 10111 101110 011110 101111001 11101 01101001111 0111110 010 1 1010001011 1011 1110111 1101101111 10111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 2,579 |
Words | 603 |
Sentences | 82 |
Stanzas | 18 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 21, 3, 4, 2, 1, 4, 3, 6, 6, 2, 2, 11, 11, 2, 5, 5, 6 |
Lines Amount | 100 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 107 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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