Poem Analysis of Dizzy And Crazed by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Dizzy And Crazed that begins with:

Feeling,
That the days have come......

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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Rhyme scheme: aBCdXceFeF GhXXGhce eFeFaBCdD dD GhgeFE FE FE Fe FEXFEge
Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,8,9,2,6,2,2,2,7,
Closest metre: iambic trimeter
Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 10 10111 1010101 10 101000 11011111 10 00100 10 01101 101110101 1 11101 001010 101110101 1 11110 010011 10 00100 10 01101 10 10111 1010101 10 0101010 10 0101010 101110101 1 110011 101110111 1001101 110 1001101 11011 1001101 110 1001101 1011 1001101 110 1001101 11011 011 1
Amount of stanzas: 10
Average number of symbols per stanza: 97
Average number of words per stanza: 17
Amount of lines: 47
Average number of symbols per line: 20 (very short strings)
Average number of words per line: 4
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; dizzy is repeated.
The author used the same word haunted at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines dizzy is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word dizzy at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase dizzy connects the lines.

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Dizzy And Crazed by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

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