Analysis of What Money Can Not Buy
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Money to have,
Either limited or in abundance.
Can and does,
Have such an effect on one's mind.
To leave them to actually believe,
Common sense to use with intelligence...
Is given as if inherited,
From a World birthed into of status.
And money to have it interpreted,
As achieving of wisdom and authority!
Even one dressed to impress,
Can be taught to imitate...
What is meant to them to be success.
However...
This to do,
For someone exposed as an idiot to prove.
Would be a miraculous undertaking,
To convince of having hidden genius qualities.
Had been their chosen choice to choose,
For the purpose of being 'down-to-Earth'.
With a doing to be thought approachable.
And liked by everyday people!
'No one,
Pretends to be that dumb on purpose.
No one.
And...
Expose evidence of it to prove it too?
That's beyond something yet to believe.
Even if...
A stupidity like that is not pretended.
Although...kept defended.
And money to have it had or not,
Will never enable anyone...
Dumb, stupid or hopelessly sickened mentally.
To buy that many blindfolds!
No matter where the alternate Universe is!
No one...
Is that mentally disturbed,
And remains adored...
With a doing to have many disbelieve,
Kept discreet and purposely...
Are unrevealed genius qualities.
This to do...
Would make no sense to make sense of it!'
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011 1010010010 101 11101111 111110001 1011110100 110110100 101101110 0101110100 101011000100 1011101 111110 111111101 10 111 11011110011 1100100100 1011101010100 11110111 1010110111 10101110100 01110110 11 011111110 11 0 01100111111 101101101 101 001001111010 1010 010111111 11001010 110110010100 111101 11010100101 11 1110001 00101 10101110001 1010100 1110100 111 111111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,318 |
Words | 272 |
Sentences | 33 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 12, 9, 13 |
Lines Amount | 44 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 254 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 56 |
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Written on August 31, 2022
Submitted by lpahtillah on August 31, 2022
Modified on April 14, 2023
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