This is an analysis of the poem Knowing What It Takes that begins with:
What could have stayed to flourish,
With a doing that encourages......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXaXXbbXa XcXdca badcbc X ecfebXedX XXXfbd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,6,6,1,9,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111010 001010100 010001 10100100 111110 01001 01 1011 10010101 1110100010 1011110 100101010110 010010001101 0101111010 11000100 11100100110001 101100011101 001111100 101001001111001 1110001100101 1011100 010101001 1110111010101 1 1110111001010010 1010101110 11 1110110100110100 1001000101010011 010110101 110010101 1111010001010110 1 111110110 10100011011 11100101 00100100
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 194
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- 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 is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines not is repeated).
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Knowing What It Takes;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!
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More information about poems by Lawrence S. Pertillar
- Analysis of No More Fairytales Told To Tell
- Analysis of Under The Raging Water
- Analysis of Stuck In A 'What? ' Zone
