This is an analysis of the poem What Are You Saying? that begins with:
Why are the people looking shocked and stunned?
'The one they elected to public office, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bbXX c XdXX dc eeX cd XfaX f XeX e XaeeXX XX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,1,4,2,3,2,4,1,3,1,6,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101010111 11101001010 01011100 1100001010001 0101011001000 1 1 11100 1010010100 10110 1 111011 11110010 10 1010101 1 111010101 1 001010 11111001 111100101000 110010 1111010 1110100101101 011100 11110 1 110101 0111010110 1110010 01110100010100 11101010 110010111 11
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 70
- Average number of words per stanza: 13
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word what is repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase what connects the lines.
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- summary of What Are You Saying?;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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More information about poems by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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