Analysis of Admitted Guilt
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
How could it ever be enough.
An admitted guilt.
Known.
To know it wrong to commit.
After consciously picking to victimize,
Someone to have been innocent.
Where is the justice administered,
Before and not after the act is done.
Where is the judge and the jury.
And why should the one victimized,
Be expected to forgive, forget and apologize.
For being incapable to erase,
What it was that took place in their life.
To stay with them to remember it.
As another feeling a guilt to admit,
Expresses a wrong to have committed...
To have done this to then leave relieved.
Without a wound inflicted.
Or blood to bleed from the agony.
With scars left on a broken heart.
That will never leave the mind to stay,
Victimized on the inside.
Regardless of how the outside,
Appears to have completely recovered.
To miraculously heal.
From what was done to them.
Purposely to do to excuse the guilt of it!
People of faith are told everyday,
To pray.
Yet...
Prayers to pray everyday,
Seems never to remove the wounds...
Remembered to stay.
Reminisced uninvited.
As if...
An open invitation had been sent!
Making a forgiveness given to forget,
A guilt to admit...
Still wrong to have done it!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110101 10101 1 1111101 10100101100 1111100 110100100 0101100111 11010010 01101100 1010101010010 1100100101 111111011 111110101 10101001101 0100111010 111111101 0101010 111110100 11110101 111010111 1001001 01011011 0111010010 1010001 111111 100111010111 101111101 11 1 111101 11010101 01011 01010 11 110010111 10001010101 01101 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,177 |
Words | 248 |
Sentences | 29 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 11, 10, 12 |
Lines Amount | 39 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 230 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 52 |
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Written on July 12, 2022
Submitted by lpahtillah on July 12, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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