Poem Analysis of First And Foremost by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem First And Foremost that begins with:

First and foremost...
With pre-eminence to commence....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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Rhyme scheme: abcbdeXf ghba cfdai agbaXXX jf X dekkXkkb jfXib fakbgg bahjgjXXg
Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,5,7,2,1,8,5,6,9,
Closest metre: iambic trimeter
Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 1111 01100001 11011 11100100 1101010100 001100101010 010110101 011101110110 111100 11101111 1011001 11101010 1 11011010 11101000 111 0101011 1011 111 11 00111 01000101 11 0011011000 01111 1110010010 1111110 010 1111011010 10011011101010 110101001 1100 1110 11000 11101 111010101001 11000101110 11 1111011 10010101110 1101100 1110 1111 1101001 10010 11001 1 1110 100111010011 1 1110100110101 1 1010111100 11011010010010
Amount of stanzas: 11
Average number of symbols per stanza: 135
Average number of words per stanza: 23
Amount of lines: 54
Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
Average number of words per line: 5
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; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines years is repeated).

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First And Foremost by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

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