In The Giving There's A Benefit by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem In The Giving There's A Benefit that begins with:

To have awakened is a good thing to be!
And I have learned, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: A BcdXab BbbXcee BCBC ABCBCBEBXXBCBCbEBd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,6,7,4,18,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01010000100 1111 0010001101010 101011111 0110100010000 110101000111 00100001101 111 100101010110 00101001 010001110100 010010011010001 10100110101 1001010001011 111 001010100 1111 11111100 01010000100 1111 11111100 111 001010100 1111 0101 111110 1110111001 111 001010100 1111 11111100 1111 0101 111110 1110111001
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 186
  • Average number of words per stanza: 34
  • Amount of lines: 35
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6

  • 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, have are repeated.

    The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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