This is an analysis of the poem Not Yet Officially Banned that begins with:

Not yet officially banned,
Are kept old standards....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

The information we provided is prepared by means of a special computer program. Use the criteria sheet to understand greatest poems or improve your poetry analysis essay.

  • Rhyme scheme: AbcbXXXcdd AaeeaXe daedeXdbd AXAcaAbdXXd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,7,9,11,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101001 11110 01010110 11011 1001 11101001 01010100 11011100 1011101 10110001001 1101001 11100011101 001000101001011 10111111 11101 01101 101000101 1 111101 111111 101110101 011101 11101011 10101 01001100 101000001010 1101001 1110100100 101001 101001 11010011100 101001 01100101 010001 010010 010101010010 010
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 281
  • Average number of words per stanza: 47
  • Amount of lines: 37
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; to is repeated.

    The author used the same word not at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of Not Yet Officially Banned;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!

More information about poems by Lawrence S. Pertillar