This is an analysis of the poem Something Will Dawn On You that begins with:
If you have doubts about reality...
Run across a highway, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXX abcd Xcde XeXdc abfbXXXfdca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,4,4,5,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111010100 101011 01110 100111 01 11 01001001 101000111 01101101010 110100 11000100 1100101 101101 101011 10100 101011010 1 11101111 10110110 1101000100001 11111 11010001 11110110 101110 1011 11110111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 120
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 26
- 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:
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; of is repeated.
The author used the same word something at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Something Will Dawn On You;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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More information about poems by Lawrence S. Pertillar
- Analysis of Without An Intervention To Prevent
- Analysis of On The Same Wavelength
- Analysis of Reminders
