Doing What It Takes To Feel One's Best by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Doing What It Takes To Feel One's Best that begins with:

Doing what it takes to feel one's best,
Is 'not' something one adopts to do......

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: Abcded cdbeXa adcXXa AcAeXc adeXea
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101010111 011010101 010010 00100111101 0101010000101 110100010110 111100010 101100010 1101111 001101111 10111110011 11000100101 1001010011 1110110111 010001101010 0101010111001 11001 111001101101 101010111 011010101010010 101010111 010110101 11011010 11001011010010 100110011 0100111010010 01011 001101001111 1110010101 001
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 240
  • Average number of words per stanza: 42
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.

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  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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