Poem Analysis of Few People Are Not Liars by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Few People Are Not Liars that begins with:

Is it meant to be...
People are made dependent....

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Rhyme scheme: ABX Acb DABX DEBfBf ABE ABc ABEee DABX DEfAFA DAFX DAFXXFAFe
Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,4,6,3,3,5,4,6,4,9,
Closest metre: iambic trimeter
Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 00100 1011010 0010001 00100 101101 1101101 10010 0111 111010 1000010 10010 0111 111010 1000001 1011010 010111 00100 1011010 110101 00100 1011010 110111 00100 1011010 110101 10010101 110001 10010 0111 111010 110110 10010 0111 1101110 1101101 1101110 1101101 10010 0111 11 11 10010 0111 11 11 1101110 1101101 1101110 111101
Amount of stanzas: 12
Average number of symbols per stanza: 93
Average number of words per stanza: 17
Amount of lines: 49
Average number of symbols per line: 22 (very short strings)
Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, people are repeated.
The author used the same words is, why at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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Few People Are Not Liars by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

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