This is an analysis of the poem On Everyone's Lips As An Expectation that begins with:
Those tasks one is given to complete,
Are not to be done to inspire 'awe'....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aX bc Xadbbd XXbdeX beaaca cc ce afXfbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,6,6,6,2,2,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010001 1100100110 1110111010 1001010010010 1110110101 010101 101010 010011 010110100 110110 10011 1100110 1110 110010 0110000101 11001000 0100000101 01111101 0100111 010010 001010 1001 100001 01011001010 0011011111010 1111111101 00010000101 10011 10100000100 1 111111010 10110101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 126
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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 and is repeated.
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- summary of On Everyone's Lips As An Expectation;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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More information about poems by Lawrence S. Pertillar
- Analysis of Stroll Into Your Limelight!
- Analysis of Things Are Meant To Be
- Analysis of When It Has Been Discovered And Decided
