Are You Expecting Me To Care? by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Are You Expecting Me To Care? that begins with:

Applying the brakes to escape,
The fast pace of a hectic life......

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXabcbdefd gXeX d X XhibXfb XfX iXdifceh gXjX akXckj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,4,1,1,7,3,8,4,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01001001 01100101 11100100 0101010001 01101010101 1110100100101 010111 1110011111 100101 00101001 1001011 11111 11011 00010001001 0100 1111011111 1 110 11110111 1111011101 110011110 110111 011101010 100 11101010010 1111101111 111 1110011101 00111001001 00101110001011 11111010 11011011011 111101 011101011110 110101001 111100011 01101110101 11010100111 101 111010101 110 1101111010101 111000010101111 1011110011
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 165
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 44
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, one, and, i, you are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.

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