Poem Analysis of Bitter Critters by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Bitter Critters that begins with:

There will always be those in need of...
Love....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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Rhyme scheme: AaAXAbXb AXAcAcdc AcAcXXdX
Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 101101010 1 101101010 010101 101101010 1010010101 01010011 0010100011101 101101010 1101 101101010 100111001 101101010 0101110001 01101101 0111010111 101101010 10101 101101010 01001011111 00101011010101 110110010001 01010110111 001000101101
Amount of stanzas: 3
Average number of symbols per stanza: 298
Average number of words per stanza: 55
Amount of lines: 24
Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, of are repeated.
The author used the same word there at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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Bitter Critters by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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