This is an analysis of the poem The Best Of The Basic Things that begins with:
When the feelings of my hands,
Have numbed....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXabX XXccbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010011 11 1111101 01001000111 10101011001 11011101001 1111 10010 000100 1100101 0010010101 01001010101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 194
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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; to, i, with are repeated.
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- summary of The Best Of The Basic Things;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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More information about poems by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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- Analysis of With A Waiting For Relief
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