My Desire To Do by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem My Desire To Do that begins with:

I fret neither worry of making mistakes.
Or of the admitting them to those who oppose, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabbXcdXadcbccc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
  • Metre: 11101001001 100010001101 11110 0100010111001 11101010101100 111101 1010010101100 111011100101111 1111010101011 111001001001 010111 1101001 011011101101 1101010101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 281
  • Average number of words per stanza: 55
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, i, can are repeated.

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

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

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  • summary of My Desire To Do;
  • central theme;
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