How Strong 'Is' Your Faith? by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem How Strong 'Is' Your Faith? that begins with:

Let me settle this,
And get it over with....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aX XXbaaaaX ccXadca edXXcc XXbX e X b X X bX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,8,7,6,4,1,1,1,1,1,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11100 110100 101101010101 01 01 01111101 1010010010101 001111001 1110 11011111 101001 01101000 11011111 010101 111101001 10111011010 1111111010 10101011101010 1100111001111 1101001 110111101 111111010 10101 1 111100 110010100101 110101 111110110 1111 11100110111 111110100111 10 111010 111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 96
  • Average number of words per stanza: 18
  • Amount of lines: 34
  • 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; and, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word in is repeated.

    The author used the same word my at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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