Analysis of Pursuing Higher Education
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Pursuing what,
As a result to prove.
Does one seek a higher degree of education?
Is it to be of service to others?
With a doing to assist,
In the improving of a better quality of life?
Or...
Celebrating an intelligence,
Certified to have...
In obtaining the ability to greed successfully.
Yet thousands are approved,
To graduate from prestigious schools.
Without one receiving...
A Bachelors, Masters or Doctorate degree,
In the field of Common Sense.
As a convincing independent study!
With a doing to prove its use beneficial.
'What an appalling thing to say,
About our qualified scholars today!'
'You are right.
All my life I have been,
A specialist in keen and focused observation.
And no one, as of yet,
Approached me to award that degree.'
'Just how would your observation,
Aid the economy?
One hand has to feed the other.'
'I have observed,
Flaws noticed to mention and correct.
Would positively affect,
The quality of life for everyone.
And that game to play,
Depending upon common sense to use...
Would leave few schools,
Mass producing selective scholars.
To identify having the appearance,
Of what intelligence is.
That to do...
Could close an entire business industry.'
'What you are saying makes no sense.'
'If sense had been an attempt,
These days to be made...
Craze would not be as welcomed,
As a normal way...
To keep dysfunction as a must have,
Appetizer.
If anyone is not showing signs,
Of being out of their mind.
Quickly they are suspected and profiled.'
'That's an exaggeration.'
'One mindset to have and promote,
Unconditionally?
Is what to do effectively to go unnoticed.
Yet based upon rituals,
To approve them followed.'
'Adapting to adjust.
Without fuss or discussion.'
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,708 |
Words | 352 |
Sentences | 38 |
Stanzas | 12 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 7, 7, 2, 5, 3, 12, 1, 9, 1, 5, 2 |
Lines Amount | 57 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 110 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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