This is an analysis of the poem Do Whatever It Is You Please that begins with:
With love...
That's the only way I know....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABABC AbAbXXXd ABABC efegacga cHDCIC XifXHDCIC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,8,5,8,6,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01 1010111 01 101011101 11101111101 01 111111000101 01 011110001111 11101010 01100010101 111111011 1000010 01 1010111 01 101011101 11101111101 100001011101 1110011101 11101 1 1101001101 110 111010 111001 11111101 11100011 11100011 10101 1101 1101 110111 0101 1101010 11100011 11100011 10101 1101 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 151
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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, you, with, i, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, do are repeated.
The author used the same words with, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Do Whatever It Is You Please;
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More information about poems by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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- Analysis of Imaginative Associations
