Take Your Eyes Off Of My Treasured Space by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Take Your Eyes Off Of My Treasured Space that begins with:

Take your eyes off of my treasured space.
Not an inch of it here is yours to be shared....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ABCD EFGXh fbXdbah ABCD EFGfh fedXbX biiaf Xjijd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,7,4,5,6,5,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111101101 11100101001 1110010101 011010 11110010 011010 110101 100011000 1011101001000 1001 1110111 1011111 1001000 110010100011 010111 0110101 111101101 11100101001 1110010101 011010 11110010 011010 110101 0110101010 11110111001 11101010010 1101010 10100111 11010111 11011111 1001 101010101 111010111 01011100101 01101010 1010101010 1101 10111111 101101100 11010111 110100100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 171
  • Average number of words per stanza: 33
  • Amount of lines: 41
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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