This is an analysis of the poem What Is This 'Image' that begins with:
What is this 'image'
We have been blessed to reflect? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XABXCDE Xfaag XABXCDE Xgaabfaba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,5,7,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100100 1101001 011101 100010000 0010001 1100010 11011001 100100 1011 10111001 1111100 110101 100100 1101001 011101 100010000 0010001 1100010 11011001 0011100 11010110 01110100 00011 1 11110101010 11011101 1101 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 179
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 28
- 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; and is repeated.
The author used the same word what at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of What Is This 'Image';
- 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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