This is an analysis of the poem That Promise I Made To Myself that begins with:
I remembered when I promised myself,
I needed to stop complaining for no reason....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXXXc XX cddXae XXebd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,2,6,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010111011 110010101110 1010110101110 11011 1011 0101000111 1 101101 111 11111110 1101110100001 1111011111 111011011 110101101 111110011 0100 10111101010 11101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 108
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
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.
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More information about poems by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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- Analysis of The Proof Of That
- Analysis of Done With A Commitment
