This is an analysis of the poem As If To Impress that begins with:
They can declare themselves geniuses.
And compare themselves to those suppressed....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXX abXXXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101100 101010101 1010100100 0101100100111 10110010 10001 01011010100 011110111 11011010 1101010 101101001001 11
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 217
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
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- summary of As If To Impress;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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More information about poems by Lawrence S. Pertillar
- Analysis of Pressured From Depths
- Analysis of What Is Now On My Agenda
- Analysis of Needed Just One Body
