Today...The Kids Make The Demands by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Today...The Kids Make The Demands that begins with:

I am not going to say,
One of my three sisters and I......

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXbcdXX dXXXbcddX accXXabbdXaccad
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,9,15,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111001 10111011 01010101 11101 1110010 10110110 1101110 101 0101101001 1101001 1101010 11111101001 101011100111 10001 1100000101111 11101101010011 01011010 101 1010010101010 10101101000101 110 10110110 11111111100001 1010001010110101 110011111101111 01011101101010101 01 011001 110101011 01 1011001101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 277
  • Average number of words per stanza: 51
  • Amount of lines: 31
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7

  • 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; to is repeated.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of Today...The Kids Make The Demands;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!

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