Hypnotized By The Bling Of Things by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Hypnotized By The Bling Of Things that begins with:

Fed on concepts that have gotten them into ruts.
And they are stuck....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abc ded aXa eee cbc XcXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111011100001 1111 111001101 1011111110 10110101 110101010110 101011110100 01001010000 001011 1011101010100 10111001 0001011 11101 1110101101001 0110010101110101 11110101 111101 1101011 1011010100001
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 19
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; have, to, who are repeated.

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

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  • summary of Hypnotized By The Bling Of Things;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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