A Disaster Being Debated by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem A Disaster Being Debated that begins with:

For those who tried,
But could not stop watching......

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcaddddXae fddcaggXba X efbhdf XFGhffXfdX hhiXibdX XFGX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,10,1,6,10,8,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111 111110 01001101 111001001 0010010110010 11010110 00101110100 1 10010010010 10001010010 11101000101 1 11101001 010010 101001 11101011010 1011110010 1 11011111001 100001010 1010101 1111011101001 0111010 01101 11110 101111101 01100 10110100001 10 1110101 1010001 10101001 1100101011 1101111001 0100100101 101011001 110101000101 1011111000 1111011 10001101110 1001001010 10110000 111011100010 10001110 1110 0110 10 1110101 1010001 101010010
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 231
  • Average number of words per stanza: 42
  • Amount of lines: 50
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.

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  • summary of A Disaster Being Debated;
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