When It Was Easy To Luxurize In High Rises by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem When It Was Easy To Luxurize In High Rises that begins with:

It would seem,
From a bird's eye point of view......

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXbXXaac abbadaXdb cXXcdbbc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,9,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 011 0011101 110010010 1101010 100100001101 001011 1110 101101 1011001000110 1110011 10110 10101 101010001 11101000011010 010 1111110100100 100111 11101001 0101010101010 1010011 011011001010 11110 010110101001 0110111111 10110011010 0111 011
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 283
  • Average number of words per stanza: 47
  • Amount of lines: 27
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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.

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