This is an analysis of the poem Seated Within Barriers that begins with:
Where was I 'trained'?
To use my brain? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XAbcXX DEFBGD dhXdebc XAcdegadccbfddbd Xbbac XAeeeehdhafbeedbehX DEFBGDahiebdi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,7,16,5,19,13,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110 0111 0101010101 10101 11100101 001011010 1000010 111 1000010100 10110 10101010100 111010 110101010 01110 111010 010000100 10101 010010 1111010 11110 0111 0101010 0111001100 010100110100 11010 1111001010 101011 0101010 101001000111 110010001 001010100 111001001011 10011 10101 0111001011100 1110010 1001010100 011101100 1011111010 10111010 11110 0111 101011011 0110101101 11101001 11011011 111011101 111111010100 1111110101 010011 011100 111110001 001001101 101000111 1110100100100 1101010100 11011011 101111011 0010110111 1000010 111 1000010100 10110 10101010100 111010 1110101010 1101001001 11011001 1011001 0110101001 1110110 001110101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 317
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 72
- 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:
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, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, my are repeated.
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- summary of Seated Within Barriers;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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More information about poems by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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