To See A Doing Of What Was Due To Come by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem To See A Doing Of What Was Due To Come that begins with:

I have never sought to share with anyone,
In the fighting of my own battles....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbddeX eedaXe cfXafXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11101010100 001001110 11110100111 01100111101 111010101 1 11001011 0011111 1111100101 1110101 1110100011 1110110 01101001 1010010110100 1111101011 011010100 0010101 110011 010100100100 0100101 1111001111011 01010011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 261
  • Average number of words per stanza: 49
  • Amount of lines: 22
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, of are repeated.

    The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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