Sweating With Blistered Hands by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Sweating With Blistered Hands that begins with:

I use to care with a doing.
And a sacrifice with a giving away of talents, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXa bbbcX adXaacXXdabcc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,13,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010010 10101001001010 01101000010100 1101111010 10001001 1101110011 110011100 11010110 110100100111000 110000001010 11101001011 11101111 110010 11100101010 0100101011 0111100 11001001 1000111 11110011 01100101001 100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 200
  • Average number of words per stanza: 35
  • Amount of lines: 21
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7

  • 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; with is repeated.

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

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

  • summary of Sweating With Blistered Hands;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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