Analysis of Color Of The Bridge
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Nothing can or will prevent,
A people stubborn.
With a mind set embedded...
Fixed in cement.
From bombing a bridge.
One that supplies,
Every nourishment imagined.
And providing,
All of their needs to please.
Dependent upon to survive.
If...
Rumored through gossip.
And lies heard to spread told.
That an historic bridge,
To have been built centuries ago...
Had been bought and sold.
By a group of diversified,
Ethnic people.
People who were thought to believe,
Cleaners of the bridge.
Clearners who were also observed,
On a daily basis...
Ensuring those they 'served',
With every possible need.
Without complaint.
As if to do this subserviently!
Oh...
When this had been revealed.
And offended those entitled.
Up rose butts on cold to freeze,
Shoulders.
Who then decided...
A bombing of this bridge,
Would be...
In the best of their interests.
With a newer one to replace it.
Before. And not after...
A bridge had been built!
And...
This brilliant decision to have made,
Still remains...
In the argument process.
Since...
More prioritized,
Is the color of the bridge.
And the image of it.
That reflects less diversity.
With a doing to hire,
The ones limited in expertise.
But guaranteed higher paid wages!
When and if...
Those given authority,
Can come to agree...
Whose ancestors,
Had arrived first upon these shores.
To represent the image of the bridge!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011101 01010 1011010 1001 11001 1101 100100010 0010 111111 01001101 1 10110 011111 110101 111110001 11101 1011010 1010 10101101 10101 1101001 101010 010111 11001001 0101 111111 1 111101 00101010 1111111 10 1110 010111 11 0011110 10101111 010110 01111 0 110010111 101 001001 1 1010 1010101 001011 10110100 1010110 01100001 10110110 101 1100100 11101 110 10110111 101010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,301 |
Words | 226 |
Sentences | 42 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 26, 12, 18 |
Lines Amount | 56 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 349 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 75 |
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