Analysis of Call It...Patience!
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Some of a remaining few these days,
Among the many who believe...
Anyone sincere.
And treats them respectfully.
Are feeding themselves,
On a diet of nuts and organically grown...
Dehydrated berries.
To easily then be deceived, used and duped.
With a mistreating them publicly,
As fools mentally detached from reality.
Until it is too often,
People like this...
Take kindness given to them for granted.
When those who are treated disrespectfully,
Begin to snarl then to hiss...
With an exposing of fangs.
Dripping venom.
And a smile that warns,
Beware. Keep your distance.
Or become severely bitten!
And...
There once had been a time,
When without the hissing to snarl.
Or the exposing to display fangs.
One's tolerance to quietly remain aggrevated,
Unseen behind a shut mouth.
As teeth would tighten the muscles of jaws.
Folks use to call it...patience!
These days,
Patience to lose it...
Depending upon who has lost it.
Where and why.
Is described as domestic abuse.
Even if someone has been deliberately,
And with intent...
Driven to madness and unmistakable craze!
Scheme | AXXBXXXCBB DEXBEFXXXD XXXFCXXA AGGXXBXA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110010111 01010101 1001 0110100 11001 101011001001 010010 11001101101 100101100 1110001110 0111110 1011 1101011110 1111101 0111111 1101011 1010 00111 011110 10101010 0 111101 10101011 100101011 11001100011 0101011 1111001011 11111 11 10111 010011111 101 101101001 10111101000 0101 10110001001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,070 |
Words | 214 |
Sentences | 28 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 10, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 36 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 209 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 44 |
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