This is an analysis of the poem When You'Re Feeling Not Quite Your Best that begins with:
How are you really feeling when you're feeling,
Not quite your best as some expect? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABb ABb cbdb ABc Xcdcab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,4,3,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101110 11111101 10101100101 11110101110 11111101 111100111 11111111101 1001111011 0011111010 01111110101 11110101110 11111101 10010010100101 101100101 1101110 100111100 0010001 11111100 111001101001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 151
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; feeling, when, and, you are repeated.
The author used the same word how at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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More information about poems by Lawrence S. Pertillar
- Analysis of Whether You 'Declare' That Heard, Read Or Not
- Analysis of Instead Of Cursing With Words
- Analysis of The Mentality Of One's Ignorance
