Analysis of The One and Only

Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)



There has only been one.
Born Lawrence Pertillar, Jr.
To have become,
Lawrence S. Pertillar.
Done in 1971.
Others to have come,
To believe it easy,
For them to masquerade and charade as me?
Flattered? I am not.

But to attempt to imitate,
Me to interpretate my contributions...
As a writer,
On other websites done to appreciate.
Leaves me left to discredit,
A faking of my creativity.
Only God knows is mine alone to originate.
And yes I am,
The one and only Lawrence S. Pertillar.
To make this known of my seriousness.

Respect me to do with a doing of research!
There is much of my work contributed.
Long before many websites,
And plagiarists discovered them.
To emulate their faking!
Of my undertaking.
That took my nearly a lifetime to develop.
And finding a way,
To communicate and say...
What it was I had been born to do.
When even I at a time many years ago,
Had no idea I would be defending...
To protect my poetry submissions.
As if they were,
My own.
Yet different to express themselves children.
And,
This I will admit there has been times...
Their opinions may be upsetting to hear.
But never will I deny,
Them all to be my opinionated children.
How can I?
When I love them all as they are to be.

My thanks to PoemHunter.com
And Poetry.com
Two of the best poetry websites.
On the internet.


Scheme ABCBXCDDX EFBEXDEXBX XXDXGGXHHXXGFBXAXXBIAID CCDX
Poetic Form
Metre 111011 11011 1101 1011 10 10111 101110 1110100111 10111 1101110 1111010 1010 110111010 1111010 010110100 101111011010 0111 010101011 1111111000 011111010101 1111110100 101101 010101 110110 11100 11110011010 01001 101001 111111111 110110110101 11010111010 1011100010 1110 11 11001010110 0 111011111 10101101011 1101101 11111010010 111 1111111111 1111 01 11011001 1010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,303
Words 286
Sentences 36
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 9, 10, 23, 4
Lines Amount 46
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 251
Words per stanza (avg) 60
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Written on September 15, 2022

Submitted by lpahtillah on September 15, 2022

Modified by lpahtillah on September 18, 2022

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