Who Is Going To Get The Credit For It by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Who Is Going To Get The Credit For It that begins with:

Volunteering one's time in some communities,
Has led to the experience or receiving indignities......

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: Aab XcAdXe Xecebad X X eXX bX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,6,7,1,1,3,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101011010100 1100010010100100 11 010011011010 10111100101 101011010100 1011010001 1110011010110 1010100110100010 101011011000 1101 01110100010 10111010101 110010110001111101 11110101 110101101 11011010010010 1011101101001001 110100101010 110101110100 1111010110111 1010010 100111110101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 150
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 23
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, to, have are repeated.

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