Analysis of Knowing Nothing Else
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
It should not be difficult to understand,
And it to discover...
We are people,
Born and raised on lies told by others.
Others to grow to know nothing else,
But what has been to them told to tell.
Victims defending their own manipulation.
And mentally,
To never be persuaded or accept...
Deluded truth to fiction reality,
Can be a dangerous existence to live.
Especially...
If adopting to adapt to fantasies to wish.
For the masquerading to charade,
An imitating of pretensions.
Serving no other purpose,
But to entertain the selling of a lie told.
Since no one consciously,
Will ever come to agree...
What reality is to live it.
Yet can quote verbatim...
Word for word a message heard on TV,
A suggestion made...
By an animated animal.
How certain foods to eat,
And chemicalized beverages to drink.
Will enhance their appearances.
With erasing their blemishes and flaws!
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIHJHKLMNOHHPQHLCRSTU |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111100101 011010 1110 101111110 101111101 111111111 10010110010 0100 1101010101 010111010 11010001011 010 1010101110011 10010101 11001010 1011010 11010101011 111100 1101101 1101111 111010 1110101111 00101 11100100 110111 0110011 10110100 1010110001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 843 |
Words | 148 |
Sentences | 18 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 28 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 683 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 148 |
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