You Do That Quite Too Well With The Others by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem You Do That Quite Too Well With The Others that begins with:

I wish I could appease you more than I do.
But that would leave me sitting in a vacantness....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaX bcadadXXefc aXeXXgfeee bcgffXg gfecXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,11,10,7,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110111111 111111000100 100010101 11101011 0100011110111 11111 0111011001 01011 01000101 11011111 1101 10000111101 111010011001 1011 1110111010 110111011 111100101010 10100011010 11101111 110111 1010111 111111010 010011101 10111 01101011 111100110101 1111110010 1011000101 111101 11111010 101100 11111001 1111101000010 001001010 101101 111001 1101110 11010101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 259
  • Average number of words per stanza: 50
  • Amount of lines: 38
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, you, with are repeated.

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