This is an analysis of the poem With Less Sweat that begins with:
Why is it,
That someone will waste their skills......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccXc bdbdbbdc adXec eeaead XXbbcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,8,5,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100 1110111 110 0010010010011 111100101 01000110 1111010110100 0011110110010 0011001 10100101001 110101000110 001001010 110110010010 00111100101 101001001 001 1001111 1 00101010001011 11111111100110 1101100101001 001101011100010 1 011110101 100101001111 110 110 11110011010100 11110011 010101 11
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 224
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 31
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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 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.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of With Less Sweat;
- 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 Under The Table
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- Analysis of One Too Many Times
