Analysis of Rebuilding Concern

Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)



Rebuilding concern.
And a consciousness,
Allowed to burn by doubt.
With thoughtless division toss about.
Followed with a mix of added,
Attitudes permitting racial conflicts.
Can and does,
Promote selfishness and mental tensions.
Claiming this all to blame on others.
Going through the same,
Accusations made to blame someone else.
For something done,
To do to themselves.
With us all in need to examine ourselves.
And begin to rebuild that concern,
Once to have had long before...
We began to walk away from our doors.
Just to find any reason to disrespect,
Any and everything created and made...
By our own footsteps to accept.
Yet...
Neglect,
What and who we choose to abuse.
To believe okay to leave left as is!
Expecting...
A remedy to come to heal and cure,
What we have done with no concern.

And...
God has provided to give us the tools.
Although...
Too many have ignored those tools,
Preferring to become fools instead!
But to whose convenience,
Does the performance of this benefits!?


Scheme AXBBXXXXXXXXCCAXXDXXXDXXXXA XEXEXXX
Poetic Form
Metre 01001 00100 011111 110010101 10101110 100101001 101 0110001010 101111110 10101 01011111 1101 11101 111011010001 001101101 1111101 10111011101 1111010101 1001001001 11011101 1 01 10111101 101111111 010 0100111101 11111101 0 1101011101 1 11010111 010101101 111010 1001011100
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 959
Words 168
Sentences 23
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 27, 7
Lines Amount 34
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 389
Words per stanza (avg) 84
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Submitted by lpahtillah on September 10, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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