You Do A Major Trespassing On My Patience by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem You Do A Major Trespassing On My Patience that begins with:

Let's put aside the debating,
So we can get the basicness of this......

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ABC dcefe ghdgb fcfhc gccgg ABC XbhXXbXebd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,5,5,5,5,3,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11010010 1111010000 1011 1111101010110 011100101 1111010111 1101000100 1101010100001 0111101 11101100 01111000110 01001001001010 11 101111100 10100011010101 01110101101100 101001010 01101100 11101011101101 11010011 011111 11011101 0111011011001 11010010 1111010000 1011 1110100110001110 10101101001 110110110111 1101000101 0111 110101101110 1 01110011100 1101101011010
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 161
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 35
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7

  • 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; your, of, me are repeated.

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