Analysis of Whatever!



It is heard from words spoken,
How it is people want their kids...
To succeed and enjoy,
A quality of life to live and be happy.
Sold to sell this told to anyone listening.
Yet...
Hypocritically contradicting themselves.
As if blinded.
Restricted to their own mental limits.
And truth to hear it only if fictioned.
Or removed from schools,
Where teaching lessons determines...
From what books are used.
After others have been censored.
If too much reality,
Awakens the minds bored.
By the creating of homemade delusions.

And knowing this to exist these days,
Not a word to hear heard...
Expresses better than 'whatever!'
To observe and witness,
The priorities of the people.
Who claim to want,
A better life for their children.
Yet themselves can not read nor write.
Or either their children.
Who are encouraged to remain down to Earth.

'Sometimes a mouth to open,
Is better than if kept closed!'

'And this to experience your mouth open,
Will be mine, I guess?'

'How do you believe,
Your children can and will achieve success...
When you are encouraging them,
To never change.
Remain the children they are...
Unchanged, good polite children.
With a doing to stay down to Earth.
And become as useless as door knobs,
On a revolving door.
The children?
I can understand.
The parents?
I'm not so forgiving.'

'Whatever!
My great grandfather chopped wood,
And picked both tobacco and cotton.
Making a wonderful life for his family.
Earning fifty dollars a week.
Ambition, incentive, motivation and desire.
That's all he had.
And not a college degree either!
These days not to earn one but to pay for it."

'When was that?
That your great grandfather earned,
Fifty dollars a week?
Back in the 1800's!?'

'Correct.
You are right.
And...
Managed to save something each week too.'

'Are you aware of what time it is?'

'Yeah.
Why?
What's wrong with your cellphone?'


Scheme AXXBCDXXXDXEXFBXE XFGXXXAHAI AX AJ XJXXXAIXXAXXC GXABKGXGX XXKJ XHXX X XXX
Poetic Form Tetractys  (22%)
Metre 1111110 11110111 101001 010011110110 11111110100 1 101001 1110 0101111010 011111011 10111 11010010 11111 10101110 11110 010011 10010111010 010110111 101111 01010110 101010 001001010 1111 01011110 10111111 110110 11010101111 0101110 1101111 01101001110 11111 11101 1101010101 11101001 1101 0101011 0110110 101011111 001110111 100101 010 1101 010 111010 10 111011 01101010 100100111100 10101001 0100100100010 1111 010100110 11111111111 111 111101 101001 1001 01 111 0 101110111 110111111 1 1 111110
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 1,860
Words 390
Sentences 52
Stanzas 10
Stanza Lengths 17, 10, 2, 2, 13, 9, 4, 4, 1, 3
Lines Amount 65
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 143
Words per stanza (avg) 32
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Written on July 15, 2023

Submitted by lpahtillah on July 15, 2023

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