This is an analysis of the poem Why The People Cry that begins with:
Time we're given to be living,
Loses its grip....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaXabXc dDdDdDX dDdDdDX EfabEXa dDdDdDDDdDdDcfXdDdDdDDDaff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,7,7,7,26,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11100010 1001 1011100010 1011 011100010 1110 11111 1010000 1 0101 1 0101 1 0101 111010 1 0101 1 0101 1 0101 1101111 001110 101011001 001110 101101111 001110 101101111 011110 1 0101 1 0101 1 0101 11111 0101 1 0101 1 0101 1110111 010100010 1 0101 1 0101 1 0101 11111 0101 10011010 001 11101011
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 174
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 54
- Average number of symbols per line: 18 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
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; why is repeated.
The author used the same word why at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Why The People Cry;
- 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 Overnight Minds
- Analysis of Where Evil People Dwell
- Analysis of But? What About The Buts?
