Wounded By A Lover's Touch by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Wounded By A Lover's Touch that begins with:

ooo-baby baby babe,
I'm wounded by a lover's touch....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ABAB CDE X aBAB CDE FEGEHE ABAB FEGEHE AEAE FE ABABXCDE
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,3,1,4,3,6,4,6,4,2,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110101 01010101 110101 01010101 1111111 111111 1110111101 111 10101 01010101 110101 01010101 1111111 111111 1110111101 1111111 1111101 1101111 1111101 11010111 1111101 110101 01010101 110101 01010101 1111111 1111101 1101111 1111101 11010111 1111101 110101 1111101 110101 1111101 1111111 1111101 110101 01010101 110101 01010101 1111111 111111 1110111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 101
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 44
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; baby, i, know, and are repeated.

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

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