If Using Profanity Was My Proclivity Of Choice by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem If Using Profanity Was My Proclivity Of Choice that begins with:

Why do they look at you,
As if they are upset? ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ab bbX X cXcXX Xbbdc XadX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,3,1,5,5,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111111 101101 11001 1110101 11010110111 1011 1111 010010011010001 11110101110010 111101110 111 101101111 110010110101 11011101 10111001000 110 10 1 1110110 110010101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 99
  • Average number of words per stanza: 19
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; they is repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines upset is repeated).

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  • summary of If Using Profanity Was My Proclivity Of Choice;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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