Share With Them My Gratitude by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Share With Them My Gratitude that begins with:

Submit what?
My ideas? ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abc bXX dea ddX ff ggghhcggIXI XX iXab facg jgfj XX addae didXajg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,2,11,2,4,4,4,2,5,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 011 1010 0111 100101010 11100110101 1100010010011100 1 1101101 01 1010010 101011010 1111110000 10 10 1001101011100 111101111 100101000100 10101 111011 101110110001 111011100 0010101 11 11 11 1 11110111001011 11 111 011011 111110 0111110100 0111111 01000111101 0010101110 1110 1110011010 010 100110 111010 11101 110 11111111101 1101 111110110000010 00101 11001101 1111001011 100101101 0011011000 1001101001 10110 1101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 114
  • Average number of words per stanza: 21
  • Amount of lines: 53
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.

    There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.

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  • summary of Share With Them My Gratitude;
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  • history of its creation;
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