Poem Analysis of Northern Pike by James Arlington Wright for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Northern Pike that begins with:

All right. Try this,
Then. Every body...

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Rhyme scheme: abXbcadeXfgXdXfcdXehhcXdaXgbb
Stanza lengths (in strings): 29,
Closest metre: iambic trimeter
Сlosest rhyme: rima
Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 1110 110010 11111 110010 1010 0100100 11010101 11111 011101 1000111 010001 10001001 0010101 111110 1111111 0101110 111011010 101111 1101011011 1011 10100111 101010111010010 1010 101110110100010 111011010 111011 1101 11010101000110 11110
Amount of stanzas: 1
Average number of symbols per stanza: 810
Average number of words per stanza: 165
Amount of lines: 29
Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, for, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, for, we are repeated.

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Northern Pike by James Arlington Wright: poem analysis

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