This is an analysis of the poem If You Want To Keep Your Peace Secured that begins with:
I've been in one spot for twenty one years.
Mended from several heartbreaks....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abacded aaXcccXXfaceX fccbX XacggcXf bXaaeXbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,13,5,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001111010 10010011 11111 111111 1101111 101101111001 1100111101 1011001100 110011 111010111 110101 1111011 011001 111100011 11101 111111101 111000111 1110001111 111111 110101 1101111 11011110 011101 0100001 101101 11111110 0101011 1 01 1001 1011101 1111101 1010 01 11100010 10101101 0111011 011 10100 1111 11110101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 234
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 41
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
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; i, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word you is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).
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- summary of If You Want To Keep Your Peace Secured;
- 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 Cease-Fire
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