You Have No Need For The Ones You Have by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem You Have No Need For The Ones You Have that begins with:

Continue to procrastinate.
Do nothing, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbcddbb aXXaaaaXa eefdXddcX bcdeXf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,9,9,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01000101 110 1111 0101001001 1001 11101111 1101 10111 111010 101011101 01101100010 1101 10111 0010101 1101 0100 110011 111101010 01 1101111 11001 011011 11111 1101 10101 111000 110010011 010011 111101 111011100 111110111 1011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 214
  • Average number of words per stanza: 36
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5

  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines time is repeated).

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