Poem Analysis of Evidence Of An Imbalance by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

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Naturally...
If someone accepts something has no substance, ...

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Rhyme scheme: abcddd Xbaba XcXb XeXeXdabd
Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,5,4,9,
Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: couplets
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 1000 01101101110 0101001 1110001 010100 11100110100 1011100010 00110101001 10100100 10010011100100 011000101000100 100110100011010 0010101000010001 100010100100101 0110001010 10100010100 01010100 1000 10010 10101 1010111 10100 1011001 00101010110011
Amount of stanzas: 4
Average number of symbols per stanza: 216
Average number of words per stanza: 33
Amount of lines: 24
Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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 is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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