Analysis of No! Does Not Mean Maybe Or If
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Nowhere is a 'no' said found to find,
Defined as meaning...
If.
Or the possibility,
A 'no' could be a 'maybe'...
To insist with persistence,
That a prolonged agitating...
Will change the mind of one knowing,
Aggravation patiently tolerated...
Has become an invitation,
For one to enter...
Into a screaming shouting match to start.
'I said NO!
Even spelling it backward,
Will mean 'ON' my nerves...
You have successfully gotten to get.
But I said NO!
Meaning for you to go...G-O.
Leaving me alone.
And take that B.S. with you.'
'Okay, okay I understand.
You don't have $20 to loan to me.
How about $5?
And I promise this time,
To pay you back the money I already owe you.
Next month!'
'Do me a favor.'
'Go to that closet door over there.
Open it.
And bring to me my baseball bat.
I feel like hitting a couple of soft balls!'
'What?
You think I'm that nuts?'
'No.
I don't think that at all.
But something tells me,
I need proof...
You have not lost your mind!'
'I'm not into violence.'
'Neither am I.
I am more into achieving understanding.
The best way I can.
To be left understood.'
'I'm leaving.
But I don't see a baseball bat.
Not in this closet.
Did you put it somewhere else?'
'No.
Go...
Away.
Now!'
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011111 01110 1 100100 0111010 1011010 1001100 11011110 010100100 1011010 11110 0101010111 111 1010110 11111 1101001011 1111 1011111 10101 011111 11101 1111111 101 011011 1111010101011 11 11010 111101101 101 01111111 11110010111 1 11111 1 111111 11011 111 111111 1101100 1011 11101010010 01111 11101 110 11110111 10110 111111 1 1 01 1 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,222 |
Words | 288 |
Sentences | 48 |
Stanzas | 11 |
Stanza Lengths | 12, 8, 6, 1, 4, 2, 5, 1, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 51 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 79 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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