So Bold Are Those Shoulders by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem So Bold Are Those Shoulders that begins with:

It's hard to disapprove someone determined.
Someone like that, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: Abc BDE EFGB EFEEE BDE Abc EFGBXEFEEE
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,4,5,3,3,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01010111010 1111 01100100111 00100001011101 1101 0011111 111110 0101 10100001 1001101 111110 0101 0100001110 001110 11111 00100001011101 1101 0011111 01010111010 11 111101001001 111110 0101 10100001 1001101 111110 0101 0100001110 001110 11111
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 113
  • Average number of words per stanza: 20
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; to, one, that are repeated.

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

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