This is an analysis of the poem For Those Nonaccepting that begins with:

What is goin on here?
I have never seen so many people, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

The information we provided is prepared by means of a special computer program. Use the criteria sheet to understand greatest poems or improve your poetry analysis essay.

  • Rhyme scheme: a XbcX ccbX ccdccX e XXacXX Xcdf Xgggegh fghbbX X X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,6,1,6,4,7,6,1,1,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10111 1110111010 100101 101011 100010010 1100010 010110010 1010101010 1010011010101 101101001 0001000010000110 111111100 0011010 111001010 10100101100 111011010100 1 011 010101011101 111111010111010 111000 011111 1 1 11111 100101 10101 101011101 11111101111 1 100111111111 00010111010 110010001111 1010000 101010 11 11 111011010 100011011001 110010101 111100
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 119
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 41
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; as, to, their, they, and are repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of For Those Nonaccepting;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!

More information about poems by Lawrence S. Pertillar