Up Against The Walls They Installed by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Up Against The Walls They Installed that begins with:

At any price their decadence is wished.
An opportunity to be lifted away from it, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbcdcaaadcaa abcceccXcce
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,11,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101110001 11010000100100 101010 010010 1101110001 110100 010010101 110011 101000011 011110010001 1110100010100 101111011 100 11101001 001001 100001001101 11001 1001 01001011001001 01001101010101 110001001101 100011011001 10101101 101011110 11011000111
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 473
  • Average number of words per stanza: 78
  • Amount of lines: 25
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6

  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.

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