To Those I Have Not Met Or Seen by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem To Those I Have Not Met Or Seen that begins with:

To those I have not met or seen...
But feel in my heart I know....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdXb efeXgX XfgcXce faccf hX aihiiacXhXifi dhXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,7,5,2,13,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01111111 1101111 0111 11110 11010 01011001 1111 101010011 11111 00101010 111001 110110 11111010 1011100 1111101 01100100 10111 10101010 10111101 11000110 111110 11111 0101 1100011 1000 11111111 110 100 10 010 100 11 101 011 100 11111 1000100 01010100 101000010100100 11110010 1010011011010 110101011 011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 127
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 43
  • Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 4

  • 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; i is repeated.

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

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  • summary of To Those I Have Not Met Or Seen;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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