Left To Leave Unintroduced by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Left To Leave Unintroduced that begins with:

I can stop my mouth from saying,
The wrong thing....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaba cdedeffbXXfea gfbbfafcd bagX hahXiXffci X ae bdaccXXaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,13,9,4,10,1,2,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111010 011 11010100010 01000011 110101010 1101 001000101 11010001 011100010 11110011 1001110100 11111101 10110000 011110 0101001 11011011 10 1011101 111010101 1101101 01110111 110101001 10 110111 01111 01110101001 1111001 111110 11 01101 10101 1101011110 11001000101 11111010 111001 111 1101 1011010100 110111101 1111 111 101101011 1011 101 1111111 011010 111101 01011 1100010 1101 1101010 110100100
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 175
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 52
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5

  • 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.

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

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  • summary of Left To Leave Unintroduced;
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