Analysis of Decadence
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Is there a culture that can survive,
To have its citizens accept and believe...
Thriving on greed.
With an increasing supporting,
Of decadence.
Endorsed to ignore,
The overwhelming effects...
This has on the rising cost,
It pays to continue denying...
Stability of mentalities,
Depending upon fiction to depict reality.
Is a disease.
And not a good dividend,
To expect a return that benefits longevity.
Pretensions kept to parade,
A charading of a greatness,
Ultimately has this growing episode...
Close to see by those most aware,
And conscious enough...
To know an ending results.
When the feeding to rely,
On decadence and greed.
Is not a permanent position to brag about.
If the people are left to suffer and grieve.
Unable to afford experimental cures.
Hoping to identify reality.
For what it was to be to recognize it.
Yet gone.
But wishing it to want back again.
Even if the normality of it is questioned!
Scheme | XABCDXXXCDEXXE XXXXXXXBXAXEXXXX |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 110101101 11110001001 1011 11010010 1100 01101 001001 1110101 111010010 010011 010011010110 1001 010110 10100111000100 0101101 011010 1000111010 11111101 01001 1111001 1010101 110001 1101000101101 10101111001 01010100101 10101010 1111111101 11 110111101 101010011110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 913 |
Words | 184 |
Sentences | 20 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 14, 16 |
Lines Amount | 30 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 360 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 77 |
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