Analysis of Toothless Ruth
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Without proof or cuth to display compassion,
At its roots from where empathy begins...
To spread and bloom given room to do.
Yet it claimed introduced weapons used.
Unrelenting endlessly.
With a ruthless shown witnessed capability.
Is no different than gumming on a steak,
Toothless.
Yet...
Devoured to have the observing of it believed,
Tenderness administered to meat...
Freshly killed and rare to taste.
Had been a consideration.
But...
Why waste the thrill,
Of warm blood to crave.
Anticipated by the ones accustomed,
To debating...
Whether road kill is a better appetite,
Served to celebrate ancestors...
As an honor to show the progress,
Their descendants have made.
Away from sticks and stones thrown.
To run back into caves.
And today?
Missiles are used to ensure,
No roads are used to kill anything to eat.
If whatever it may be,
Could be identified and recognized...
To be thought a human being!
And...
Not an animal,
Dwelling in buildings.
To crawl from caves below them.
No cuth has toothless ruth!
'Uh...
Is it,
C-U-T-H?
Or...
C-O-U-T-H?'
'Oh.
So now you want to know,
Which recipe is better to eat and chew?
Whatever you decide.
I'm hungry!'
'Hungry for what?'
'The boom boom bang bang.
Geeessshhh!
And you claim to have a progressive mind!?'
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01111101010 1111110001 110110111 11101101 010100 10101100100 1110011101 10 1 0101100101101 100010011 1010111 1100010 1 1101 11111 0100101010 1010 1011101010 111010 11101101 101011 0111011 111011 001 1011101 1111111011 110111 11010010 11101010 0 11100 10010 1111011 111101 1 11 1111 1 11111 1 111111 11001101101 1011 110 1011 01111 1 0111100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,261 |
Words | 265 |
Sentences | 38 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 34, 1, 5, 5, 1, 3 |
Lines Amount | 49 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 160 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Written on November 03, 2023
Submitted by lpahtillah on November 03, 2023
Modified by lpahtillah on November 03, 2023
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