This is an analysis of the poem Gone Are Those Temptations that begins with:
I remember what I did to do.
And with who to do each season....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCB AAcd CEcE FecFccEcEc ABAACBXdddX CXdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,10,11,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101011001 10101110 11110111 00100101 101011001 111001 11110111 010100011 111010 01000101 1111010 110101111 01110111 100111 1111 01110111 0110100 001001010 01000101 1101010 110101111 0111 101011001 10101110 101011001 111001 11110111 00100101 11100101 110101 01111110011 111001010 11111110100 111010 0110101101 11101111 1011111101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 192
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 37
- 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 punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, to, it, my are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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More information about poems by Lawrence S. Pertillar
- Analysis of Knowing What It Takes
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