Analysis of Exactness
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Exactness and the use of facts?
Detailed and delivered,
With a doing to produce...
The evidence of truth?
Air tight!
Not even an expert teller of lies,
Could hypnotize...
Those squeezing their eyes,
Attempting to try...
Believing themselves,
Molecules probed under microscope.
Assigned to undo truth to delude,
Its origin and revealed existence.
Is and ultimately can be,
More painful than a tooth extracted.
And pulled from one's mouth,
Speaking truth to come out.
Without novocaine to stop the pain.
Especially these days,
When more people are willing to pay...
Any price it takes,
To stay as deluded as possible.
Fearing the threat,
Of the presence truth.
Heard to hear rumored or not,
Will destroy their sandcastles built...
During high tide on a wet beach.
But warned and told,
Motes dug to dig...
Around their castles to build them.
Will not prevent,
The destruction that comes!
People only want to hear,
What 'they' want to hear and that's it.
With no ifs-ands-or told you so's!
'When are you going to stop,
Exaggerating the truth and reality of it?
People are not that stupid.'
'Hmmm...
That is one thing,
I have yet learn to do!'
'And what is that?'
'Express my observations.
Without being cynical or sarcastic.'
'I said...
Exaggerate.'
'I heard you.
You have your observations.
And I have mine.
And like I said,
I have yet to learn to express,
My cynical and sarcastic point of view...
Better than I do.
But I am learning all the time to improve!'
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Metre | 100111 010010 1010101 010011 11 1101101011 110 11011 01011 01001 1011010 011011101 1100001010 10100011 110101010 01111 101111 0111101 01011 111011011 10111 1110101100 1001 10101 1111011 101111 10111011 1101 1111 01110111 1101 001011 1010111 11111011 11111111 1111011 01000101011 1011110 1 1111 111111 0111 011010 01101001010 11 010 111 111010 0111 0111 11111101 11000010111 10111 11110101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,467 |
Words | 314 |
Sentences | 37 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 13, 9, 13, 3, 3, 1, 2, 2, 8 |
Lines Amount | 54 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 124 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted by lpahtillah on January 09, 2022
Modified by lpahtillah on January 09, 2022
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