It Is A Luxury Sometimes by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem It Is A Luxury Sometimes that begins with:

I can be foolish.
And can do foolish things...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aba c bXc cddc XbXdbd Xc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,1,3,4,6,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010 111101 1011100110 0001000111 11101 110010010 101001100 110100100 1101011 010100 11111111 11101 111101 011001010 1100001 11000101 1111101 10111010 10101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 91
  • Average number of words per stanza: 17
  • Amount of lines: 19
  • 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; i, foolish are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word that is repeated.

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

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  • summary of It Is A Luxury Sometimes;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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