Don'T Go Thinking You'Re The Only One by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Don'T Go Thinking You'Re The Only One that begins with:

Rumors and lies seem to fly as high as kites,
In the breezes of Spring to untighten Winter jaws thawing......

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXabca bcdeed ddXbX bcdefef XXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,5,7,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10111011111 0010001010010110 111011011101010100 111100100100 10010010001001001 110010101001010100 101010001001110100 11100100001001 101101001101010 1011110100100111010 00011010100111101 00100111000011100010 11111 111010101 11101110011 01 11011110 11 10111001101 11001110111110 101110100 0110010101001 110111000110 0100010110110101 1010010011 1101111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 212
  • Average number of words per stanza: 37
  • Amount of lines: 26
  • Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9

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