This is an analysis of the poem No Time Did I Waste In Perfecting Deception that begins with:
When you finally discover,
Those places I've been......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABBbbXc B dXXdXdeXbcc B ABBebebee B ffbdggeXB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,1,11,1,9,1,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11100010 11010 1011011 110100101111 0101110 011111 01111 110110010010 1011110 111011 1111111 00110 0111101011 101101101 110 01 110101 10110 010111010 110110010010 11100010 11010 1011011 010101110101 1111 11010011101 1110110101 0011111 01110111011 110110010010 01011111110 111101011110 111010 1010011010110 1111001 111111 001101 111001 110110010010
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 187
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 39
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, i are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word deception at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of No Time Did I Waste In Perfecting Deception;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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More information about poems by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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- Analysis of Repetitious Are The Ramblings Dished
- Analysis of Another Perspective
