Poem Analysis of Of Course It Hurts! by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Of Course It Hurts! that begins with:

Of course it hurts!
What pain inflicted doesn't? ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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Rhyme scheme: AbcXbdba AXcbccee AaXaXfXfA XaXaf AXXcaaXa daX
Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,9,5,8,3,
Closest metre: iambic trimeter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 0101 1101010 0110001 0011010101 1111111 110110 111101001 0100110 0101 01101 1101 011000100 101010010001 001010101011 10111 1010001 0101 0100100001 011101 01001110011 01101100 01101 00101101 0111011 0101 1110111001 10101 11000101 0101010 0111101 0101 110110 11101010010 11101111 101 0010010001 001001 1 1110010 101010100 001011010
Amount of stanzas: 6
Average number of symbols per stanza: 199
Average number of words per stanza: 34
Amount of lines: 41
Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
Average number of words per line: 5
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.
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 poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
The author used the same word of at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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Of Course It Hurts! by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

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