This is an analysis of the poem Giving Up On Status that begins with:
Giving up on status felt once automatic.
And representing 'bling' people use to own......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABB CDCE DCCC CDCE ABB DCECCC CDAFG CDAFG CDAFGXgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,4,4,4,3,6,5,5,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101110111010 11010110101 00100111001 01 001010110 101011110100 11001011001 110101110 101111 111001 10111010100 01 001010110 101011110100 11001011001 101110111010 11010110101 00100111001 110101110 101011110100 11001011001 101111 111001 10111010100 01 001010110 111010 111101 1101010 01 001010110 111010 111101 1101010 01 001010110 111010 111101 1101010 1111010 1101010
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 126
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 41
- 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:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word habit at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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More information about poems by Lawrence S. Pertillar
- Analysis of All That Inhabitates On It
- Analysis of Too Knowledgeable About Outcomes
- Analysis of I Am Not That Kind Of Vendor
