This is an analysis of the poem To Infest And Manifest that begins with:
Why do they glare?
Those who stop to stare......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXa BCddc edXcE FGd BCXX FGdE FGdE FEEXFEE
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,5,3,4,4,4,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111 11101 0010011 0010100101 11010100 100010 1000100 010110110 100111001 11101001 10101000 10010101 011001100 0011101 11101010100 10001010 10100 11010100 100010 10101110 100000 11101010100 10001010 10100 0011101 11101010100 10001010 10100 0011101 11101010100 001 1101 11101010100 001 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 107
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word manifest at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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More information about poems by Lawrence S. Pertillar
- Analysis of Equally Sheltered And Confused
- Analysis of Extra-Vated
- Analysis of What About The Wind And How It Shifts?
