This is an analysis of the poem Voices Heard Above The Wall that begins with:
If you want to try out new adventures,
And not be censored......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCABC dEFC dEFC Xgafg AGABAGABh ABCABC dEFC dEFCiCJXCiCJCiCHCiCJCiCHCiCiCi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,4,4,5,9,6,4,30,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0110111010 11010 1110101 0110111010 1110010 111110111 111 110100010 110101 1010101 1111 110100010 110101 1010101 110010111 001 11101 110011 010 001 0110 001 001 001 0110 001 001 01001 0110111010 11010 1110101 0110111010 1110010 111110111 111 110100010 110101 1010101 1111 110100010 110101 1010101 10 11010101 10101 1010101 10 11010101 10101 11010101 10 11010101 10111 11010101 10 11010101 10101 11010101 10 11010101 10111 11010101 10 11010101 10 11010101 10
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 190
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 67
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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, it are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word wall at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase it connects the lines.
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- summary of Voices Heard Above The Wall;
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- idea of the verse;
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More information about poems by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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