This is an analysis of the poem Pivot that begins with:
Giving up a sight,
To scope upon another......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABAA CBAA DEFEFg ABAA CBAA DEAA FEAA FgDEFE ABAA CBAA CBAAXA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,6,4,4,4,4,6,4,4,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101 0101010 0010 11110 1011 011010 0110 11110 111110 0001 111 1111101 111 1011111 10101 0101010 0010 11110 1011 011010 0110 11110 111110 0001 11110 1010 111 1111101 11110 1010 111 10110111 111110 0001 111 1111101 10101 0101010 0010 11110 1011 011010 0110 11110 1011 011010 0110 11110 11110 1010
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 93
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 50
- Average number of symbols per line: 20 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
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 is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word why is repeated.
The author used the same words why, turning at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines pivot is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word pivot at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Pivot;
- 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 Know Your Life
- Analysis of Wrong And So Long Gone Are Those Times
- Analysis of Don'T You Have Something Else To Do?
