'Stop Staring At Them, Harry...' by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem 'Stop Staring At Them, Harry...' that begins with:

I hope I do not embarrass?
I'm feeling like a child, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AbXccc AXaaaddX AaXdAXbdb XX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,8,9,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111010 010101 0011110 010011011 11001 11101 11111010 1110 110100010 10101 1101 110110 11110 10101110 11111010 11111010 100101 11101 11111010 101010010010 11001001101 11111110 101001 1101010 1111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 171
  • Average number of words per stanza: 33
  • Amount of lines: 25
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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; i is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is 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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  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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