Your Visit With Aging by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Your Visit With Aging that begins with:

I don't know why,
You believed I was older than you....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abacde eaXfgdf bgXbgXX afcgbX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,7,7,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111 101111011 1100 11110101110 1011011001 001010011111010 01100010111111 11010101 110010111 101101111 0110110001 110111001000101 0011 111011101 1 1101110011100001 111 110101 10100110 1001010101010011 1 111101010 110 101000101010 111111 111001001
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 210
  • Average number of words per stanza: 42
  • Amount of lines: 26
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 7

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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

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

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

Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!

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