Someone Who Has Placed A Bet by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Someone Who Has Placed A Bet that begins with:

I hope to have greater moments,
Than the ones that have come......

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXa BAA CDE XXf CDEXBAAfae
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11011010 101111 011101 11111001100010 01010111001 010100111101 1101101100101 1100110010 11010111 1111010101 01111010 001011001110010 1101101100101 1100110010 11010111 11111001100010 01010111001 010100111101 1111001110110 11111010111 01011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 140
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 21
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, to, and are repeated.

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

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