Analysis of Have You?
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Have you?
Yet with closed eyes,
Felt restricted to limits.
Have you?
Done this to wonder,
Why?
Have you?
Allowed this boundless darkness,
Take you away to places...
Where dreams are made to create?
Have you?
Yet with closed eyes,
Felt as free as you possibly can be?
With a letting go,
Of all that you believe...
To leave it where it is unseen?
Have you?
Have you ever notice,
With your eyes opened wide.
And ears to hear whatever heard.
To become more conscious,
Of what others say and do?
That may or may not include you at all.
But..
Remains on your mind.
Giving it time to condone.
When your time spent to come,
You spend it done...
Blaming to claim someone else,
For what they do.
While restricting to limit more,
Of a letting go of what others know...
To know less but yet,
Keeps your mind as if theirs to control.
Have you?
Ever wondered why,
The business of others...
Keeps you limited as if to restrict,
A minding of your own business?
To discover this to do,
Has more benefits.
If you allow and prove it to yourself.
Have you?
At least attempted it?
Scheme | ABcAdeAfghABijklAfmnfaopqrstuavjwxAeyzfa1 2 a3 |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11 1111 1010110 11 11110 1 11 0111010 1101110 1111101 11 1111 1111110011 10101 111101 11111101 11 111010 111101 0111101 101110 1110101 1111101111 1 01111 1011101 111111 1111 101111 1111 10101101 1010111101 11111 111111101 11 10101 010110 1110011101 01011110 1010111 11100 1101011101 11 110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,016 |
Words | 199 |
Sentences | 30 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 44 |
Lines Amount | 44 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 806 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 199 |
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