It Has Become A Custom by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem It Has Become A Custom that begins with:

It has become a custom,
To turn away......

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ABCADECDAffafcg XhXdiciHBJ ABCADECDHBJXccg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,10,15,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0101010 0101 0010111 0101010 010101 1101010100 0100101 10110110101 0101010 101001010 01010010001 10101010 0011010001 111010 11001 1111010 0101110101001 1101111101 1011010111 0101011101001 111010011 1111000111 0101010011001 10000110011 101000100010100 0101010 0101 0010111 0101010 010101 1101010100 0100101 10110110101 0101010011001 10000110011 101000100010100 01101010001 110100111 01 0110010100010
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 460
  • Average number of words per stanza: 81
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, our, it, see are repeated.

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  • summary of It Has Become A Custom;
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