Analysis of Arm And Two Legs



It should not take one arm and two legs,
To find a way to treat people right.
Or feed anyone a sharing of negativity.
Just to appease the doing of this,
Day and night to satisfy the enjoyment...
As if to hunger and crave one's appetite.

Few stop to look and listen,
To what they choose to do to themselves.
Before belittling to demean and accuse,
Who has done what to say to someone...
Created to make up lies,
For no other reason but to feel...
Better about who they are yet seldom do.

Not too often,
Will someone admit...
A feeling of goodwill towards another.
Just for doing it.
Yet many will travel miles,
Out of their way...
For no other reason,
But to display injustice and evil misdeeds.
To then blame their activities,
Conveniently on others to victimize.

And why?
Only to discover and find,
Themselves paying the price.
And suffering unnecessarily,
For something they have done...
That had begun,
From a lie to tell that came right back...
Much bigger then when told.
But had them aching with pains,
No prescription written...
Could numb or relieve the fact of that.

It should not take an arm and two legs,
To find a way to treat people right.
Yet...
Many will go out of their way,
To do the best they can to whine.
And complain.
About no one caring about 'their' pains.
As if they are owed a showing of empathy!

'You act like you could care less,
About anyone else but yourself.'

'I'm a slow learner.
But eventually?
That act to practice becomes a fact.
So glad you noticed,
Your teaching...
Has made me an excellent student!
And trust me when I say,
You're one of the best...
I could have had.'

'God don't like ugly.
You know that, don't you?'

'I agree.
Too obvious is that not to notice!


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Poetic Form
Metre 111111011 110111101 111001010100 110101011 1011100010 1111001110 1111010 111111101 010100101001 11111111 0101111 111010111 10011111101 1110 1101 01011101010 11101 1101101 1111 111010 110101001001 11110100 01001101100 01 10101001 011001 010001000 110111 1101 101111111 110111 1111011 101010 111010111 111111011 110111101 1 10111111 11011111 001 0111100111 111110101100 1111111 01101101 10110 101000 111100101 11110 110 111110010 011111 11101 1111 11110 11111 101 1100111110
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,644
Words 317
Sentences 39
Stanzas 9
Stanza Lengths 6, 7, 10, 11, 8, 2, 9, 2, 2
Lines Amount 57
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 144
Words per stanza (avg) 35
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Submitted by lpahtillah on September 05, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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