What Date Are You Awaiting by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem What Date Are You Awaiting that begins with:

What date are you awaiting,
To appreciate your life? ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ABcd Xd dece ff ABXe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,2,4,2,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1111010 0010111 10100101010 0101010101 0100011010 011111101 111101 0101011011 011110010101 011010101101 1101110101 1111111 1111010 0010111 11011110101 0111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 115
  • Average number of words per stanza: 20
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, to are repeated.

    The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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

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  • summary of What Date Are You Awaiting;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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