Justifying Their Sanities by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Justifying Their Sanities that begins with:

Justifying their sanities,
Does not mean 'insane' they are not....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XAABCB DXcc DdacXAX XXdcec XAABCB D DAXXae
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,4,7,6,6,1,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101100 111100111 11110001101 01100101010 101001010 10110100001001 101101 0100101000 110101 000101 11 111100101 010001001 10010010111 1100101 111000100101 1100100101000 1101011010010101 1011 10101011001 111010110 101101 11110101011101 10101100 111100111 11110001101 01100101010 101001010 10110100001001 101101 11 111000100101 1100100101000 0101011 110010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 160
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 35
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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, i are repeated.

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