Poem Analysis of Irkalla's White Caves by Kenneth Patchen for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Irkalla's White Caves that begins with:

I believe that a young woman
Is standing in a circle of lions...

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Rhyme scheme: abc bcd abeaXf abdeXbbfgXXah begehXf ahbffabiXfbf cibXg
Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,6,13,7,12,5,
Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 10110110 0100010010 00101001 0010111100010 1101111011 01111101 10010101010010 110101 100100101 10100111 11111111 1111111001 11010010101 011011 1010010011 10100011 10100101 101001011010 01001000100101 0011 11111 0010110 11100111 010 1110010 0101 10101 101001 00101 111110 11111111 111111110 101101110 101110100100 01010101 01101 1010010111 01111011011 11101011 110101010101 11001001 0001101101 11100111101 010101110011 10101001 0110010 0010010 0110101 1010111
Amount of stanzas: 11
Average number of symbols per stanza: 148
Average number of words per stanza: 29
Amount of lines: 53
Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; in, we, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, what are repeated.

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Irkalla's White Caves by Kenneth Patchen: poem analysis

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