More Couth With Tact Would Benefit by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem More Couth With Tact Would Benefit that begins with:

I try not to imply,
With comments to affect......

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXa Xaba abaX aX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic tetrameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 111001 010001 1110010 11010100001 1101000011 001101 11110010 110100111101 11011110101 0110001 1001110100100 111100011010 11101 11011100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 125
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7

  • 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, i are 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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  • history of its creation;
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