Poem Analysis of Failing And Flying by Jack Gilbert for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Failing And Flying that begins with:

Everyone forgets that Icarus also flew.
It's the same when love comes to an end,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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Rhyme scheme: abcdefdXgehhbihXfcicaXdgX
Stanza lengths (in strings): 25,
Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 101011110101 001111011 101011101 110100111010 101101111 10101101101 110011010 1101111010 1010100101 111010001 10111000111 10011111101 100101101011 101010010000 1101100011 1101110101 1011011010 0110101011 10101011000 11111111 010110101 1101010110 110110101110 1011101110111 11100010010
Amount of stanzas: 1
Average number of symbols per stanza: 1030
Average number of words per stanza: 193
Amount of lines: 25
Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word like is repeated.

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Failing And Flying by Jack Gilbert: poem analysis

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