This is an analysis of the poem What Life Means When It's Seen To Love that begins with:
Only those who've made mistakes,
Seem to know more what it takes......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AABC dXXe fEfbG AABC bFEFHBG aidXi eXdeXbFEFHBG
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,5,4,7,5,12,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101 1011101 0111101 0100101000 1010101 1011101 0010001 001010101 101010 0100010101 01110 0100101101 11110101 1010101 1011101 0111101 0100101000 1 01010 0100010101 1100110 0100010 1101 11110101 101000100 0111 0111110 10 11111 10111 1010101 10101010 11010101001 1 01010 0100010101 1100110 0100010 1101 11110101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 149
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 40
- 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; to is repeated.
The author used the same word only at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of What Life Means When It's Seen To Love;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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More information about poems by Lawrence S. Pertillar
- Analysis of Tapestry Of Travesties
- Analysis of You'Re Getting Up And Out Of Here
- Analysis of Unintentional Mistakes Made
