Analysis of Practiced Nasty Tactics
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Ongoing,
Practiced lowlife nasty tactics.
Scrapped from the bowels,
Of gutters to use...
As a defense that threatens,
A non-existent innocence.
Has begun to uncover the smell,
That is known too well...
The origin from where,
This demented creation comes.
Yet not everyone agrees,
Their way of life...
To be perceived as heros, warriors.
Conquerors, champions and winners.
Over enemies.
And their fears that begin to threaten,
A comforting way of life.
Told and sold,
On weapons to buy.
With a doing to protect themselves.
Leaving them to practice and rehearse,
Their nasty tactics...
First on each other.
To eventually declare and proclaim,
An innocence.
Understood to understand,
And comprehend...
By a judge, Jury and media controlled,
They have grown to know as peers!
Teachers of their lessons taught to sell.
And bought to buy.
To disguise who they are to pretend,
Of having no idea...
Who initiates their fears and threats.
Although...
They do know where to go to purchase,
Every weapon hidden to conceal...
A practiced and rehearsed,
Familiar nasty tactics to use...
By those who teach them evil skills!
Scheme | ABCDEFGGHIJKLLJMKNOPQBRSFTUNVGOUWXYZ1 2 D3 |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (28%) Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 10 1011010 11010 11011 1001110 01010100 101101001 11111 010011 10100101 111001 1111 1101110100 100100010 10100 011101110 0100111 101 11011 101010101 101110001 11010 11110 10100001001 1100 01101 001 10110010001 1111111 101110111 0111 101111101 1101010 101001101 1 111111110 1001010101 010001 010101011 11111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,115 |
Words | 226 |
Sentences | 26 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 40 |
Lines Amount | 40 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 867 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 182 |
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