One Who Chooses To Focus by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem One Who Chooses To Focus that begins with:

It hurts.
Feeling deserted....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AXXa AbbbX AbXaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic tetrameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 01 10010 1001101001 1110100100100 01 0101110111011 0110010110111 011100100100101 011101011010100 01 10010 1101 1110010 1101010100
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 150
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6

  • 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 to is repeated.

    The author used the same word it at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of One Who Chooses To Focus;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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