Can You Find Your Way Out, Alone by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Can You Find Your Way Out, Alone that begins with:

It is not alright...
To do as you please....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AbcX dAXbXc aaXaeXaX ada bbddX dXeXXaac
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,6,8,3,5,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 00111 01111 01111 1111110 1 00111 01011 01011 110110110 1111 0111 0111 101101 10101 1101110010 101011 011101 1110111 11 11011011 101 111111 011 11011 1 1111 1011111011 111001101001 11010101010 10 11111010 1111111 01
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 112
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 33
  • Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5

  • 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; you is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines keys is repeated).

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  • summary of Can You Find Your Way Out, Alone;
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  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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