Analysis of Why Would Anyone Mind
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Why would anyone mind,
To discover and it found to find...
Their time given,
Sacrificing this to do for others.
Was and has to have been taken for granted.
As if their own life to live,
Is meaningless to value.
With nothing else they can choose to do.
But sit and wish to be repeatedly used.
Why is it that anyone would mind,
Being disrespected to expect it.
Then wonder to themselves,
Like no one else,
Has shown them to prove.
With a doing to care less,
That time they give to others...
Those of the others nowhere around to ask,
If there is something THEY can do.
To be of assistance.
No matter what it is.
Just to let it shown to be known,
How much they appreciate...
What another does to do done.
Giving.
Without hearing it mentioned,
Of excuses to conveniently make!
Faking.
A self importance taken.
Why would anyone mind,
That someone else...
Thought about others.
Than themselves to then find,
Time to complain...
About who has done what to do.
To take for granted this to notice too.
As if disappointed they had been told,
That time once given...
Is being used.
To take care of one's own business.
Done to finally recognize,
That business to take care of...
Has now become theirs to prioritize.
No longer that one to easily scrutinized.
'What's the matter with you?
Why the long frown,
On your always smiling perky face.'
'I can not believe,
What I was said to me the other day!
My jaws were so tight,
I felt my teeth...
Glued together as if to stay that way.
The nerve of some people.'
'Oh?
What were you told?'
'I was told and to my face.
By someone I had depended upon.
For years to be there for me.
And told...
They did not have that time to waste.
And suggested I'd find somebody else!
My eyes were all over them from head to toe!'
'How selish, rude and thoughtless.
Why would anyone say something like that?'
'Yes.
That's all that is.
And there had been times I remember,
If it wasn't for me,
They would have nothing in their boring life...
To do but wait for me to call.
I knew they had nothing else to do.'
'Some folks,
Get their butts on their shoulders.
And the next thing you know,
They begin to think it's all about them!'
'Tell me about it.
Ain't that the truth!'
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Metre | 11101 101001111 1110 100111110 10111110110 1111111 1100110 110111111 11011101001 11111011 100101011 110101 1111 11111 1010111 1111110 1101010111 11110111 111010 110111 11111111 111010 10101111 10 0110110 1010101001 10 0101010 11101 111 10110 101111 1101 01111111 1111011101 110101111 11110 1101 11111110 1110010 1101111 110111010 11011110010 101011 1011 11110101 11101 1111110101 11011 1111 1010111111 011110 1 1011 1110111 111101001 1111111 01 11111111 001011101 11011011111 111010 111011011 1 1111 011111010 111011 1111001101 11111111 111110111 11 1111110 001111 1011111011 11011 1101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 2,241 |
Words | 510 |
Sentences | 60 |
Stanzas | 11 |
Stanza Lengths | 9, 19, 15, 3, 6, 2, 7, 2, 7, 4, 2 |
Lines Amount | 76 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 150 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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Written on September 03, 2022
Submitted by lpahtillah on September 03, 2022
Modified by lpahtillah on September 03, 2022
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