This is an analysis of the poem If You Are Not Feeling It that begins with:
Do you have it in yourself to achieve?
Are you bothered by listening and discipline? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bXXcbd eefeghb aicXh bXid cXgbdceidbdf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,6,7,5,4,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110010001 111011001100 11010011 111 01001110100 111011001 11011100001 11011010011010 1100100110100 11101011010111 01101101010 111011110001 1101100101001 10110 111110010001 10101011 1 1 11101011110 110110 101110111 111111 010110011 0111100 1110111111 1001 110010 110010 1 010010110100 110101011 11001 0101101 111011 11011
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 194
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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.
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, and, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word stop is repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of If You Are Not Feeling It;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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More information about poems by Lawrence S. Pertillar
- Analysis of Who Creates These Images?
- Analysis of My Job
- Analysis of Living Lives Without Adorning Masks
