Poem Analysis of Accustomed To An Irrational Way Of Life by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

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A common sense,
Directed to someone accustomed....

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Rhyme scheme: ABCBAADEF fbgbXX abfdhaagba ABCBAADEF bddhba ABCXb
Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,6,10,9,6,5,
Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 0101 010011010 010100101 0101101 100100101 001010100 100100101 1010001100100 00111010 01001110 111 0101011 11100110001 101001011001 1001011111 1010010110 1101000111101010 1001010100 010111111101 010010 101110110 101001010001101 11101 11011110 1100100101101010 0101 010011010 010100101 0101101 100100101 001010100 100100101 1010001100100 00111010 1 1110100101 11101 001110010 01110101 11010100 0101 010011010 010100101 01101000100101 1010100010010
Amount of stanzas: 6
Average number of symbols per stanza: 256
Average number of words per stanza: 43
Amount of lines: 45
Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
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; to, those, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines standing is repeated).

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