Analysis of Few Among The Many
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
All lessons to learn,
Don't come out from books.
Or teachers using them,
Hoping their students...
Learn something worthy enough to teach.
However...
It has been said,
Many times much more than once.
That notes taken to quote from books.
Has little to do,
With the truth observed.
To witness on the streets.
When people show who they really are to be?
Feel bless to have that valued experience.
More to treasure.
Than any book one chooses to read.
Keep that in mind.
The eyes, heart and feelings seldom blind.
At any time.
Impressions to address,
Made to do that and nothing more or less.
Ultimately rust.
To expose a false kept pretentiousness.
And staying true and honest to oneself,
Makes all the difference.
Than being left feeling deceived and upset.
Experiences like these are meant to keep.
Making life to live,
More in touch with reality.
And there is nothing about reality,
One takes from a school...
Waving happily an earned to obtain,
College degree.
Only kept faith in God,
Never fails to prove that successfully.
With a broadening of insight.
And clarity delusion free.
Knowing to see people for who they are...
To accept and respect them for just that.
May not reach expectations,
One may have.
And that is not bad at all.
No.
One should be glad many expose,
Who they are to be.
Leaving left the few who expose and show,
What they have to have had experienced...
They were able to let go.
Left to live their lives happily.
Free of conflict and deluded confusion.
By a lowering their expectations.
Yet not their self esteem.
Scheme | XAXXXBCDAXXX EDBCFFX GGXAXDX XXEEXXEXEXE XXHXXI XEIXIEXHX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011 11111 110101 10110 110100111 10 1111 1011111 11101111 11011 10101 110101 11011110111 11111100100 1110 110111011 1101 011010101 1101 01011 1111010111 10001 1010111 010101011 110100 11011001001 01000111111 10111 101110 011100110 11101 1010011101 1001 101101 1011110100 1010011 01000101 1011101111 1010011111 111010 111 0111111 1 11111001 11111 1010110101 1111110100 1010111 11111100 11100010010 101001010 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,541 |
Words | 327 |
Sentences | 39 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 12, 7, 7, 11, 6, 9 |
Lines Amount | 52 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 200 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 45 |
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Written on November 11, 2022
Submitted by lpahtillah on November 11, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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