You Keep Them Pounded Down by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem You Keep Them Pounded Down that begins with:

Pounded down!
You keep them just to heap them....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ABACAdAE FGEe ABAEecABAE FGEe ABACADaE ADAEXFGaDAE
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,10,4,8,11,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101 1101010 1110101 11011111 110101 0101110 1110101 1111111 10001 1101011 11101 1011101 110101 10110010 1110101 1011101 111101 1 110101 10110010 1110101 1011101 10001 1101011 11101 101101 101 1101010 1110101 11011111 110101 1010111 11110101 1111111 110101 1010111 11110101 001111 10001 1101011 1110101 1010111 11110101 001111
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 183
  • Average number of words per stanza: 35
  • Amount of lines: 44
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; them, you, keep are repeated.

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

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of You Keep Them Pounded Down;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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