This is an analysis of the poem Such Doings Can Be Tempting that begins with:
Such doings can be tempting,
For one torn between participating......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabXbcXd efegbhdbg iecceX Xecdif XXeX ecbfe XhedX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,9,6,6,4,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101010 1110101010 001001 010100101 0111111 1100010001 010010 101001001 101111 1101 10101001 111010 10100110 11010100 1100011100 01010 0101001 1001001011 11 11111 110111110 1111001 011100111 1 111 0001111110 01110101 0111 1111101 10 11 11101 10011001 1 000101110 11111001011 111101 1111001 1 010 0101 01111 1101101010
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 165
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 43
- 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; you is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word it is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines uh is repeated).
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- summary of Such Doings Can Be Tempting;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
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- critical appreciation.
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More information about poems by Lawrence S. Pertillar
- Analysis of Send Them A 'selfie'
- Analysis of Missing From Action
- Analysis of People Without Patience
