This is an analysis of the poem Despised For Their Honesty that begins with:
Look around.
Where is truth to have been found to be, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABcDEF eghiih iifehdhafai GHddaaaXhd ABcDEF dXGHaif
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,11,10,6,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101 101010100 100 11001 110110 01111000 100101110 001000100 01101010 101110001 110110100 11001010100 1010 110100110 111011 1110110 010010100 1000101001 101001 01101111 110 0010101 010100 0111100 1101101 110111 1101000111 11001010111 01010101010 0100101 100001111001 010011001101 1010001001 101 101010100 100 11001 110110 01111000 10101 11010 0111100 1101101 1101001 1111110 00100001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 233
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 46
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; to is repeated.
The author used the same word look at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Despised For Their Honesty;
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More information about poems by Lawrence S. Pertillar
- Analysis of Throwing Away The Keys
- Analysis of Without Faking It
- Analysis of More Accepting Than Necessary
