This is an analysis of the poem You Do The 'Mongrel' Thing that begins with:
I am expected to accept and forgive,
Those who offend me....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCDEEf gXCcagXdd ABCDEEb X fXgcXcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,9,7,1,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010001101 11011 11010010 011111 101111 1101111 11 11010111010 011111100011 11010010 011111011001 101 1010110011001 1110100101100 1111001 11110010100 11010001101 11011 11010010 011111 101111 1101111 1101100 1111101 11110101 111011111 10111010 01011101000100 110101 1110010 01100001001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 199
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 31
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; i, to, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines black is repeated).
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- summary of You Do The 'Mongrel' Thing;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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More information about poems by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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- Analysis of Everything That Is Meant
