Either Your Cash Or Acceptable Credit by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Either Your Cash Or Acceptable Credit that begins with:

Glamorized violence.
Decadence and disobedience....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXbcdXde cfaeedX a dX cag aX b dXX gf bX ad XX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,7,1,2,3,2,1,3,2,2,2,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100100 100110100 101011100 1 11 1111101010100 1 010011010001 11111000101110 11 1 01111010 1011110 1101001101000 01 1110101 110101010 100 1111101110 0101000001011111 10010 100100 1001 11011101 0111111 1010111110010 11011110010 00100 101010010001000 010010001 11001010 10111010010 010110 010110000 11101011000 10111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 93
  • Average number of words per stanza: 17
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.

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

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words where, it's are repeated.

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  • summary of Either Your Cash Or Acceptable Credit;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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