Analysis of Once Over
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Once an over has come to be done.
Known to anyone wanting,
It to stay that way as is.
Why is the wishing,
What has been hoping to end...
Missed.
Over and over again.
More.
Than ever before.
To think it not that bad.
When reminiscing it,
As if...
The being betrayed, lied upon,
Deceived and treated disrespectfully...
Was a deserving punishment to receive.
Leaving one left to believe,
The act of being mistreated...
Had been their lack of understanding,
How love is expressed in many ways.
Over and over again,
Misunderstanding...
What should from the beginning,
Was made clearly understood.
Over and over again,
Reminiscing the missing...
The pain of love.
Once over to wish it back!
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|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111011111 111010 1111111 11010 1111011 1 1001001 1 11001 111111 10101 11 01001101 010101 10010100101 1011101 01110010 11111010 111010101 1001001 0010 1110010 111001 1001001 010010 0111 1101111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 658 |
| Words | 118 |
| Sentences | 18 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 27 |
| Lines Amount | 27 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 527 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 118 |
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