Believing Themselves Exceptions by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Believing Themselves Exceptions that begins with:

More have become dissatisfied,
With a reality to live on depressions....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abababa cdbXbbbaXdXd XXXX c X eXX XXXebba
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,12,4,1,1,3,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010101 000100011010 1101011101 010100010 001101 0011101 11110101101 110000101 1111101011 1101101 01011010111101 0001001010010 1011111101 111010010101 101010001 111101110 11101110111 0010101001111 10101 1 110101001 11010110100 101110 0100 111111 111011001 101011 101100111 1 111101 100110100110010101 101010011 110111 0100101110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 151
  • Average number of words per stanza: 26
  • Amount of lines: 34
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; they is repeated.

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  • summary of Believing Themselves Exceptions;
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  • history of its creation;
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