When One Is Thought To Be Kept Back by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem When One Is Thought To Be Kept Back that begins with:

I had a professor who once stated,
In a humanities class......

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcadc eXafXbX bbdbdd aafaaXXd cddeefa dX XX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,7,6,8,7,2,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1100101110 0001001 11010001 1 11001 11101001011 111111101010 11010011 01101000101001 0010 101110001 100100100100 001001000100101 1101001010 101110 0010001 1110100 11110110 01110 101001 11010101 10010010000101 11010001 1101011 1110010 1110001 0101111111 10000 10110 01001001010100 11111010010010 0111100010010 11100100 110100010 10111010 101001100 111010 1
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 175
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 39
  • 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.

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