This is an analysis of the poem This They Wish To Insist that begins with:
Please tell me this isn't true?
No one takes pride in being ignorant! ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABA bbabcc ABA abbba deXXXX Xedbfbdf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,6,3,5,6,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110001 1111010100 010110011111 1110001 11000101 1011 11011 1010101 101000101 1110001 1111010100 010110011111 10001 1100101100 0110101 001001 100101 011001 100101100 0111111 111011 00110 1010010000 1 111 1110110110 1011001 110110101 011010111010 110001 0100101001010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 160
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 31
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
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; they, in are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase do connects the lines.
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- summary of This They Wish To Insist;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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More information about poems by Lawrence S. Pertillar
- Analysis of You'Re Too Funny
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- Analysis of Evidence Of An Imbalance
