Analysis of Killing Curiosity
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Killing curiosity.
With a censoring of adventure.
And the growth process,
Of progress that relies...
On imagination to discover,
The introduction of beneficial possibilities.
This attempt to re-invent,
An acceptable way to move humanity forward.
Without offending those defending,
Their right to delude and fiction...
A non-existent reality to enforce,
As a way of life...
Witnessed these days in crisis.
Maybe supported to be normal at its best.
However...
This direction to manifest,
Civil unrest and accepted mental dysfunction?
Has few observing this threatening B.S.
Hoping with wishes to want more leaders,
Proving themselves to know nothing else...
But conflicts to start, division to implement.
And racism...
To choose as the cause and reason,
To claim and blame diversity...
For the miserable choices they have made,
To sell their souls indebted to things...
They regret and yet find this excuse to make!
Putting to death common sense unused!
Scheme | ABCDBEFGHIJKLMBMICNOPQIARSTU |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 100100 101001010 0011 11101 100101010 001010100100 1011101 10100111010010 010101010 11101010 0101010101 10111 1011010 100101110111 10 1010110 1001001010010 1101011001 1011011110 100111101 101110101100 010 11101010 11010100 10100010111 111101011 10101110111 101110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 951 |
Words | 176 |
Sentences | 20 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 28 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 756 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 148 |
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Written on March 26, 2023
Submitted by lpahtillah on March 26, 2023
Modified on March 27, 2023
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