This is an analysis of the poem A Lot Of Issues To Address that begins with:
If I look a certain way...
With my head up and not down to the ground....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbcde aaXadb fXccXXffe cXccf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,9,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0110101 0111111001 101010 0100111 1111 01011101 0110101 011100111101 1111110101 1110011 111 010 111011111 1101011 010101 101110110111 0111111111 110110 001000101011 101101 010110011011 1011010 11111111001 110 11011110 11101010011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 204
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 26
- 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; i is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, those are repeated.
The author used the same word if at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines people is repeated).
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- summary of A Lot Of Issues To Address;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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More information about poems by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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- Analysis of The Process
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