Relevant It Isn'T by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Relevant It Isn'T that begins with:

The cost of living
Getting out of reach....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXbccdbdED ccecdED dddeeED bbXED XXbeaffcd XdX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,7,7,5,9,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01010 10101 01010 101 010101 1101010001 11010110011 111101 11011 100000 101100 1010111 1001101011 110101100101 1101011 10011101 100000 101100 1010100 1000100 01001000100 101010101 010100101 100000 101100 10110111 101010010111 111001100101 100000 101100 1011000 1110110 01101 00100000 11100100010 1011 11010010 0111101 1111010 1100 0010100111 110111000100
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 214
  • Average number of words per stanza: 36
  • Amount of lines: 42
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; and, to are repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word this at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • history of its creation;
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