Analysis of Zzzzz...
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
These days...
Does a listening to one thing,
Repeated over and over again.
Make the truth of it,
More interesting to validate.
Convincingly?
When does a truth told become pointless.
To anyone left to be concerned?
About what truth is to care less.
Or what it means to keep believed?
Heard to hear addressed.
Afterall...
Aren't lies to tell them these days,
More creative?
More imaginative and innovative?
With an attention given quick.
Like a dog who is trained,
To fetch a thrown stick.
These days to hear,
Whatever it is important told?
Goes in one ear and out the other.
As if both ears have been glued closed.
Truth?
Seldom has the power,
For anyone to prioritize it tried...
To keep both ears and eyes opened.
At least to keep anyone awake!
Doesn't it seem that way?
I said...
Doesn't it seem today,
That truth heard to hear it told...
Seldom has the power,
To keep anyone AWAKE!
Uh...hello!
EXCUSE ME!'
'OH...
I apologize.
Were you speaking to me?
I was meditating.'
Snoring?
With your eyes closed drooling?
And your head nodding back and forth.
As if your neck is about to break off?
Come on.
A child can make a better excuse than that.
'That's how deep my meditations take me.
Seriously.
And that's the truth!.
What was it that I missed?
Or you assume I did.
I could have been praying.'
Praying?
For what?
'Have you ever sat,
Listening to a college professor?
Or a sermon preached.
With a beginning to write notes.
Then fall to sleep?'
So...
You do admit it.
You were sleeping?
'No.
Meditating.
There is a difference.
Meditating helps loosen tightened muscles!
With a power to make anyone forget,
Being stressed out unnecessarily.'
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11 10100111 0101001001 10111 11001100 0100 110110110 11011101 01111111 11111101 11101 10 10111111 1010 1010000100 11010101 101111 11011 1111 10110101 101101010 11111111 1 101010 110101011 11110110 11111001 101111 11 101101 1111111 101010 111001 1 011 1 1010 011011 11100 10 111110 01110101 1111101111 11 01110100111 111101011 1000 0101 111111 110111 111110 10 11 11101 1001010010 10101 10010111 1111 1 11011 1010 1 100 110100 1001101010 1010111001 101101000 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,662 |
Words | 372 |
Sentences | 60 |
Stanzas | 12 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 12, 10, 5, 2, 4, 6, 6, 2, 5, 3, 6 |
Lines Amount | 67 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 104 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Written on October 15, 2022
Submitted by lpahtillah on October 15, 2022
Modified by lpahtillah on October 15, 2022
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