Analysis of Blowout!
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
An aging tire.
Noticeably filled to expand,
With hot bloated air.
Hissing to ignore the sound of it.
Gloated by the driver.
To associate this sound,
As a sign to continue on.
Eventually explodes.
From a big blowout heard everywhere.
Leaving no one who witnesses,
The driver followed by many...
Not surprised at all.
Leaving no one to confess or honestly admit,
They went along on the trip to enjoy the ride.
Yet relieved they are,
To finally have a way to jump off.
And split in different directions quick.
Regardless if they may be resented.
And blamed to accuse,
For not staying to assist...
A blown out to age bloated flat tire,
Made to perform better than ever it was!
Yet later discover themselves victimized.
As bring opportunists and coattail riders,
Hoping to wish to share the glow...
Of the driver claiming to have abilities to fix,
Everything alone to prove it done.
Although the opposite they knew was true!
'I alone can fix anything!'
'Geeessshhh.
Just how big is that bullhorn?
Here we are miles away.
And we still can hear that nonsense made!
GOD?
WHAT HAVE WE DONE TO DESERVE THIS?'
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010 10001101 11101 101010111 101010 1010011 10110101 0100001 1011110 10111100 01010110 10111 1011101110001 110110110101 10111 1100101111 0101000101 0101111010 01101 1110101 0111110110 11011011011 11001001100 110100110 10111101 10101011010011 10011111 101001111 1011110 1 111111 111101 011111101 1 11111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,102 |
Words | 233 |
Sentences | 27 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 9, 3, 16, 1, 6 |
Lines Amount | 35 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 172 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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