Analysis of Hopelessly Truthless
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Captivated and made convinced,
Fiction to depict has more credibility...
Than the existence of truth.
A truth...
Being reduced,
Effectively from all reality.
Leaving defenders of deception,
Hopelessly truthless.
Mentally abused and used.
Refusing to accept and believe,
Themselves to be enslaved...
By their own hypocrisies.
And yet,
Pledge to protect, honor and respect...
An imitation of life,
One that suppresses truth kept to keep...
Many fearful to confess openly,
To express...
What has become for them unacceptable!
And an act considered,
A betrayal of treason performed!
| Scheme | XABBXA XCXXXC XXXXACXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1000101 10101110100 1001011 01 1001 01001110 100101010 1001 1000101 010101001 011101 1111 01 110110001 101011 110101111 1010101100 101 1101110100 011010 001011001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 581 |
| Words | 110 |
| Sentences | 14 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 9 |
| Lines Amount | 21 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 153 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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