What Are Images Created For? by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem What Are Images Created For? that begins with:

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Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ABBC dXXeeaXaa ABBCbadabe bX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,9,10,2,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 010010 11 01011101 010010 111010 0010001 010100100 0101010101 0010101 101000100 1000101 11100001 1010101001 010010 11 01011101 010010 1111 11011010 100011101 0011010 010111 0010000001 111000101 01111001100
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 183
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 25
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; to is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines there is repeated).

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  • summary of What Are Images Created For?;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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