Analysis of Wealth
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Wealth to have it.
Has little to nothing,
To have to do,
With having intelligence.
Or which degree one was given,
From an ivy league school.
Receiving donations given,
By parents connected to those...
Of acquired social status.
Who refer to themselves,
As conscious and aware philanthropists!
The ones more dependent upon,
Keeping the 'G' in greatness.
Flag waving patriots love to claim,
Is symbolic to the American way of life?
Has been those,
Of the lower and middle class.
Squeezed of high taxes to pay.
And using common sense.
Used on a daily basis.
While those brag about their wealth.
Using their capability,
To thieve, deceive and dupe.
Seldom have worked a day
For what they have.
Yet insist...
The ones who sweat,
Through blood and tears...
Those who feast upon greed.
And depend.
Are the ones threatening,
Their corrupted and selfish way of life.
Anyone restricted to living and working
40 or more hours per week.
To, at times. get paid bi-monthly.
Know for a fact,
A dollar to save everyday if they could...
Would never pay for pretensions to stay,
Imitating to charade wealth.
Or masquerading to have riches.
Beginning or the end,
Of pretensions to display them.
When midnight approaches.
To discover people rushing to get an uber,
Taxi?
Or someone to drive them home.
Back...not to the future, but to reality!
Scheme | XAXXBXBCDXX XDXECXFXDGHXFXXXXXIAE AXHXXFGJIXJXHXH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111 110110 1111 1100100 11011110 111011 01001010 11001011 10101010 101101 1100010100 01101001 1001010 110100111 1010100100111 111 10100101 1111011 010101 1101010 1110111 1010100 110101 101101 1111 101 0111 1101 111011 001 101100 1010010111 10010110010 111011 11111110 1101 01011101111 1101101011 1001011 10101110 010101 10101011 11010 1010101011110 10 111111 110101110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,279 |
Words | 227 |
Sentences | 32 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 11, 21, 15 |
Lines Amount | 47 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 345 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 75 |
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