Your Playing Days With Me Are Over by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Your Playing Days With Me Are Over that begins with:

Your playing days with me are over.
I awakened this morning and declared them so....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ABCB deXf gccXcg dehfchXcchXABCB
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,6,15,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110101110 101001010101 1011111010 011111111 111101111 1111 1010111000 0100101101 111010100101 0101010111010101 0111010 1110010 101011100 1110110101 1010111 11101100101 0100011010100 01001111 1001111 10101010011000 111 1010101110101 0111010111111 11 110101110 101001010101 1011111010 011111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 213
  • Average number of words per stanza: 38
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7

  • 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; and, you, to are repeated.

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