Not Try To Keep Up A Pace by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Not Try To Keep Up A Pace that begins with:

You've got to live life right,
To make it......

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AAB BBCB BBCB AABBXAABB
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110111 010 10101111 11111110101 0111 1101 00111 11111110101 0111 1101 00111 110111 010 10101111 11101101 110111 010 10101111 11101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 102
  • Average number of words per stanza: 21
  • Amount of lines: 19
  • 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:

    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; you, to are repeated.

    The author used the same words do, you've at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The poet repeated the same words face, pace at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of Not Try To Keep Up A Pace;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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