This is an analysis of the poem Standards Of Life That Qualifies Their Absurdities that begins with:

Fatherless,
Of those fatherless......

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

The information we provided is prepared by means of a special computer program. Use the criteria sheet to understand greatest poems or improve your poetry analysis essay.

  • Rhyme scheme: aabaaXb XXb XaXcaXabaacb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,3,12,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100 01100 010001010 11001 001110 011110101010 010 0100111 0001001110 110 0110101011 10100011101 010111111 1110100101 1101101 1010110 0011010 1110 01101 011001 110110100
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 151
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 21
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 4
  • 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, they are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines fatherless is repeated).

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of Standards Of Life That Qualifies Their Absurdities;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!

More information about poems by Lawrence S. Pertillar