Enjoy Your Holidays by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Enjoy Your Holidays that begins with:

I pray you stay safe.
And not get too close, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xabbc deXedfXX dba cXedggdf e ghgXidXda Xfghehih
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,8,3,8,1,9,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111 11111 01101110 11110 111010 11101101 110101011 1 101001101 111 10011101 01101010010100 010011100 11011 11101001000 110101100 1111101011010 1110001 11010100100 00101 11010 1111011111 110000111010001 001010010 011101 1001 1010101 1111 0101010010011 1111001011 111 0011 101101 11101011101 1000 01111110010 11110101 01111 1101 101 101011110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 184
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 42
  • 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; you is repeated.

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  • summary of Enjoy Your Holidays;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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