Analysis of Fed To Feed

Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)



Opportunists do not announced,
Themselves to be social leechers.
Deceivers, or hand biters seeking,
Upward mobility.
Fed to feed all they need to know,
About how to use others.
From head to toe.

And take them for granted.
Until they become addicted to the skills,
Of the ones gifted to fraud and dupe them.
With an ability to have it believed,
Their overwhelming self indulgence...
Is a sacrifice misunderstood,
By others who oppose...
The support shown and given from followers.

Followers,
Claiming that their bitten hands...
Had been a sign from God.
And convinced,
They were chosen and in the midst...
Of an 'angel' capable with the power,
To take truth and squeeze...
Every bit of reality out of it.
Change that truth into fiction to delude.
Then have millions thirsting,
To be drenched in it as if baptized.

'Come on. Stop the exaggerations!
This is 2021.
No one on Earth is that naive or gullible.
You should get out more.
Mingle.
Turn off the TV.
You've been watching too much of it.


Scheme XABCDAD XAXXAXAA AAXXXXAEXBX AAFXFCE
Poetic Form
Metre 0101101 0111101 111110 100100 11111111 0111110 1111 011110 01101010101 1011011011 11010011101 10101010 1010001 110101 00110101100 100 1011101 110111 001 10100001 11101001010 11101 1001110111 1110110101 11101 111011101 11100010 11 11111111100 11111 10 11011 11101111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 959
Words 173
Sentences 24
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 7, 8, 11, 7
Lines Amount 33
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 192
Words per stanza (avg) 43
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Submitted by lpahtillah on June 22, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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