These Little Girls And Boys by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem These Little Girls And Boys that begins with:

Dirty politicians using people and conditions,
To confuse and deceive what is seen and believed....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aBC bBXADAA aBC bBXAD AAXde AFAE efaaXAFAE
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,7,3,5,5,4,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101010101010 001101101101 101010101001101 1 1101 10101000 101111 010100010 0101000100 1000101 110101010101010 001101101101 101010101001101 1 1101 10101000 101111 010100010 0101000100 1000101 101011100 1101010 001100 110111 1011100 110111 1010010 1101001 010101 101011111010100 101010101010111 110111 1011100 110111 1010010
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 148
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 35
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; and is repeated.

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  • summary of These Little Girls And Boys;
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