This is an analysis of the poem Your Absence Has Made My Heart Grow Fonder that begins with:
No matter what those arguments.
Or the exchanging of a bitterness meant....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbbaXC dcXceeac dXffdadXXaaC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011100 10010001001 011011 11 10101001 1101111100 10 1101111110 110000101 1111010 1101101 1101110010 11011101 11 110 1111110 111010101 11101 111101 1010011 0011101101 0010001100 11111111 111110101 1 1110010101 1101111110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 207
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
The author used the same word no at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word fonder at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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More information about poems by Lawrence S. Pertillar
- Analysis of Putting An End To It
- Analysis of Public Announcements
- Analysis of Irresponsibility Had Been The Main Course
