Your Actions Have Outdated My Patience by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Your Actions Have Outdated My Patience that begins with:

For many years I have known of you!
And in those years, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXXacdeX fcXXcfX gde XbagaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,7,3,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110011101 1010 11111111 101010011 101000111 110010101 00101 101101 0010001 11111100 1011011 11001010111 11011110011010 011010100101 1110111010100 11111011 11010010 111011 1100001111 1111111111 110110001 11101 110 110001001 111011101100
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 206
  • Average number of words per stanza: 40
  • Amount of lines: 25
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.

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

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word you is repeated.

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