Exploring Life Has Its Rewards by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Exploring Life Has Its Rewards that begins with:

Anyone can elect to be whomever they wish.
They can do this in campaigns, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabacbXb XccXcbaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1001010001011 1110001 100100010010 00110011 110100100 1000101001001 01000101011000 1000010101010 110 10100110110 111011010010011010 100100011110001 10100100101100100 1010010100011101 0110110100010100 010001001011001
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 380
  • Average number of words per stanza: 62
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8

  • 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.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase hypocrisies connects the lines.

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