Analysis of Must Those Nuts Be Us
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Denial taught to trust it,
Is as much a way of life.
As disapproving the truth heard to hear it,
Has approached to almost be despised...
By most we believe,
Should be disliked and penalized.
Who has not sat,
Listening from a childhood passed.
About the birds and bees?
Or storks flying high in the sky.
Carrying babies in baskets,
To deliver at doorsteps unexpectedly.
Found to find smiling happily.
Them brought inside emaculate homes.
Learning nursery rhythms.
Until them more known,
Than what it means to be a grown adult!
Living to delude,
An accepted fiction shown.
Must those homemade nuts be us?
Raised to pray in a God we trust.
But offended by reality.
Removed out of our minds.
Quickly to defend against,
A truth to feel threatens and undermines.
Unable to let go of fairytales told.
Believing those who tell the truth,
Are wicked and evil.
Born without souls?
And yet we praise,
Outlaws, criminals and corrupted thieves.
Made to believe them to be chosen.
Regardless if they should lie and deceive.
They are the ones we select and pick,
To endorse as idols and to follow...
With a a blaming to claim,
It is in our best interest...
That a way of life kept to cherish it,
Will sooner become better to live.
If we all together,
Discover the benefits of darkness.
After leaving behind a consciousness.
And any awareness,
Of human kindness and what that meant!
Must those nuts continue to be us?
Left accusing others,
And not ourselves.
Allowing to follow those,
Known and shown themselves corrupted.
But...
Do it in ways,
To repeatedly expose...
They are the ones nuts.
Never to have been trusted.
Must those nuts,
Continue to be us crushed and busted.
Although faithfully claim in God we trust!
Left disgusted.
Who cracked our 'shells'?
To have us believe,
All is well without souls to have them sold.
Dwelling in self inflicted conflicts.
Happy to live this way without an exit!
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Metre | 0101111 1110111 10010011111 10111101 11101 1101010 1111 1001011 010101 11101001 10010010 1010110100 11110100 110111 1010010 01111 1111110101 10101 1010101 1111111 11100111 1010110 0111101 1010101 011110001 0101111101 01011101 110010 1011 0111 110000101 110111110 0101111001 110110101 1011100110 1001011 11010110 1011111101 110011011 111010 0100100110 1010010100 010010 110100111 111010111 101010 01001 0101101 10101010 1 1101 1010001 11011 1011110 111 0101111010 110010111 1010 11101 11101 1110111111 100101001 10111101110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,893 |
Words | 398 |
Sentences | 43 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 13, 10, 15, 10, 4, 5 |
Lines Amount | 63 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 212 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
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