With Expectations To Be Forgiven by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem With Expectations To Be Forgiven that begins with:

Your stubbornness led you,
To be stuck in quicksand more than once....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbc cXXX XX dbaa XXdX deab X acXb XXaeee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,2,4,4,4,1,4,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110011 001011111 00010101001 10101101110 11010110101 11001010101 00101010 0100101000010 1 11110010101 011101011 11001111001 10101 11111011011 1 1011 0110011 111011110111 1 1101 111 1100100010 1100101 111100011 10010111 1111 1101101 1110 111 1111 01010101000 01101110110001
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 97
  • Average number of words per stanza: 19
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6

  • 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; with, to, you are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word who is repeated.

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  • summary of With Expectations To Be Forgiven;
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  • history of its creation;
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