This is an analysis of the poem In My Own World that begins with:
Often I sit to wonder,
What does it all mean? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCDEFgG fhhf ffXeh fXeXcgXXABCDEFgG
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,5,16,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011010 11011 0110100 010100 11001110 110111 1 101 00110111 1111010010 11001 011111 001111 1101101 10100111 1111101010 111010100 001111 100101100 001010 1001111 10 111011 010111100 1011010 11011 0110100 010100 11001110 110111 1 101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 162
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (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 is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word if is repeated.
The author used the same word if at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines world is repeated).
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More information about poems by Lawrence S. Pertillar
- Analysis of Many Have Been Made Afraid Of It
- Analysis of Seeking Something Genuine
- Analysis of Never Deeply Appreciative
