This is an analysis of the poem I'Ve Only Requested You Pay Half Price that begins with:
Who wins and loses?
Who cheats and deceives? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXab cdccc aXae faXeXfXddX b X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,4,10,1,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110 111100 101010100 1101 1101101001 101001100 1010001 10101111001 11000100 0101010100 101101010110001 1011110 10100111111 00100010011100100010 11110 111101010010 1111011 1111110010 11100100001 11110 111100100111 111011 1101 110010111010 101 100111001011
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 153
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; who, and, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words who, i are repeated.
The author used the same word who at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase do connects the lines.
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More information about poems by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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- Analysis of The Needs Of All People
