Analysis of It Takes Work

Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)



It takes work.
And countless sleepless nights to prove.
What one does has worth and value.
Done to discover,
Many years after...
A doing they neither deny.
Or attempt to refuse.
The unexpected recognition given.

Leaving naysayers, plagiarists.
And judgement makers behind to believe,
They too can re-create.
What seems to them easy to duplicate.

Yet for the one who awakens each day.
Seeks fresh and unadventured,
Other avenues and other unpaved paths.
To place upon them their way to originate..
Not from books to read..
TV to watch or movies to see..
But with risks to take and chances.
Doing to achieve possibilities.

Although simple enough.
What one explores alone seems easy.
Leaving assumptions to believe,
Something to do has to be easily done.
Without effort to endeavor.
Or blood, sweat and tears to often come.

But this takes work to prove,
What one does has worth and value to know.
If they were not committed.
Loyal and devoted to what they do.
With kept faith to believe,
Something inside of them...
Can not be denied.
And if they even tried...
They could not describe,
What that something is that keeps them...
Driven to succeed without that guaranteed!
Although left they are,
Ultimately feeling happy and satisfied!
Just doing what it is they were born to do.


Scheme XABCCXDE DFGX XGXGXHXX XHFECX AXXBFIJJXIXXJB
Poetic Form Tetractys  (35%)
Etheree  (25%)
Metre 111 01010111 11111010 11010 10110 01011001 101101 001001010 10101 0101001101 111101 1111101100 1101101011 1101 101001011 11011111010 11111 111111011 11111010 101010100 11001 110101110 10010101 10111111001 01101010 111011101 111111 1111101011 1101010 1000101111 111101 100111 11101 011101 11101 11101111 1010101101 1111 10001010010 11011110111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,279
Words 261
Sentences 32
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 8, 4, 8, 6, 14
Lines Amount 40
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 201
Words per stanza (avg) 44
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Submitted by lpahtillah on September 12, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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