This is an analysis of the poem Imploding. Impacted. And Overwhelmed that begins with:
Sitting back to allow one's life,
Become impacted by fear and indecision....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaXbcdbe cXfdgbffea bbD gED bbD gEDXgED
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,10,3,3,3,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10100111 010101110010 001111001 100101 0110100101 001010100010 1111001 000110 11010011 101101110100 01110 1101001 101001000101 010101 10100111010 0101010 010010100 1011011010 0101010001 0100101101 10010011010001 00011 1 1101 00011 010010 1101 00011 1 1101 00011 1 1101 00011
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 140
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
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; to, and are repeated.
The author used the same word oh at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word meant at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Imploding. Impacted. And Overwhelmed;
- 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 Childhoods They've Never Left
- Analysis of Untie From Those Worries
- Analysis of Believing What They Hear
