Your Love by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Your Love that begins with:

Who receives it with a feeding on it...
Your love....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ABCA ABC ABABA DEDF ABABA ABCA ABCa DEDFXABABA
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,3,5,4,5,4,4,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010001010 11 101 001 1010001010 11 110111101 1010 11 11010 11 1110100101 1001 1001 11101 110111 1010 11 11010 11 1110100101 1010001010 11 101 001 1010001010 11 110111101 1101111001 1001 1001 11101 110111 1010 11 11010 11 1110100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 91
  • Average number of words per stanza: 18
  • Amount of lines: 38
  • Average number of symbols per line: 21 (very short strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 4

  • Mood of the speaker:

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

    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; it is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words under, am are repeated.

    The author used the same word who at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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

  • summary of Your Love;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!

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