Analysis of Greatness

Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)



A known to have established greatness,
Is not in need to repeatedly declare it.
Or with weapons to enforce its respect.
Achieving to keep a greatness to earn,
Takes humility to know and believe...
A greatness to have it established,
By the efforts endeavored and shown...
Done to do to show to those disrespect!
Can one day slowly fade away.
Leaving pretension sitters,
And imitating impression makers left.
To believe a image given,
Of what power is to have it.
Has little to nothing to do with greatness.
Achieved.
With the abilities and talents,
Of a diverse people.

Unfortunately,
The having of common sense...
To depend upon and use?
Seldom stays that way.
Especially when too many perceive,
What is given to them not to earn...
Automatically with them remains.
Without the maintaining of reality!

'How dare you take 'your' greatness,
Away from 'us'!'

'Excuse me.
And...
Who are you?'

'We...
Are the image keepers!


Scheme ABCDEXXCFGXXBAXXX HXXFEDXH AA HXX HG
Poetic Form
Metre 011101010 110110100011 1110101101 0101101011 1010011001 010111010 101001001 111111101 11110101 1001010 0100010101 10101010 11101111 11011011110 01 100100010 100110 01000 0101101 1010101 10111 010111001 111011111 01001101 010010110 1111110 0111 011 0 111 1 101010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 888
Words 157
Sentences 23
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 17, 8, 2, 3, 2
Lines Amount 32
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 142
Words per stanza (avg) 31
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Submitted by lpahtillah on July 29, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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