With The Faith I Keep by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem With The Faith I Keep that begins with:

And when I love,
It's with a feeling that's deep....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ABXaCcb XdedeeX ABeFB XFB AFBccfBXcfBcBCb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,5,3,15,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111 0001011 1111 1111001 1111 101 010111 1111 1101101 111111 1110101 01 1111 10101010001 1111 0001011 01 1111101 10111 1 1111101 10111 1111 1111101 10111 101 111 100111001 10111 101111 11111101 10111 101 10111 1111 00111
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 136
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 22 (very short strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 4

  • 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; and, i are repeated.

    The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The poet repeated the same word keep at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of With The Faith I Keep;
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