What It Takes To Achieve Patience by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem What It Takes To Achieve Patience that begins with:

The returning back,
From a dead end that traps......

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaabXcc addXae AAFBECGB bAA AAFBECGBXbAA
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,6,8,3,12,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 00101 001111 001000110 00111010 000101001 10001 1 111000001 01111011 001001 110111 1010110010 101010 110101 1010111 101000010 0100111100101 110101011 01111101 110101010 1110101 1 101 00110 110101 1010111 101000010 0100111100101 110101011 01111101 110101010 1110101 1 101 00110
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 171
  • Average number of words per stanza: 29
  • Amount of lines: 35
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; for is repeated.

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  • summary of What It Takes To Achieve Patience;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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