With A Sweeping Away Of Deep Secret Weepings by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem With A Sweeping Away Of Deep Secret Weepings that begins with:

When a pain is felt,
Until a numbness appears....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcXabXcbc daXcaX deaadde Xdcaca ffadaacc abeXcc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,6,7,6,8,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101 0101001 101101 00101 00111 101011 00100101101 11001101 01110 1111001 10100 011101100 1001000010 011 00101111 101101011 11111 101011011 01100 11000111 0010101 01010001 00101 1111010 000111 100010 0010101 0001001 101011 10111 1010011101 1011001 111101 10111010 1110001 10001 101101001 001001 0101 10100011 001001011010 001111 111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 202
  • Average number of words per stanza: 38
  • Amount of lines: 43
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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; to, it are repeated.

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  • summary of With A Sweeping Away Of Deep Secret Weepings;
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