Poem Analysis of Have It Said by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Have It Said that begins with:

Evidence of existing reality,
Has left many unprepared......

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Rhyme scheme: ABC BcdbXd Befgcc Bhceijc BXcebfk Bgeifb Bkhifb BkkkBjceXfABC
Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,6,6,7,7,6,6,13,
Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: ballad stanza
Metre: 10000100100 1110101 0011000 101 111010 01010001 11011101 01110101 11101001 101 11101 1101 11 11110001 000101 101 1100010 010100101 110100010010 101010010 100101010 01001101 101 110011 1101010010 10111000111 11010101 1001010100 0010101 101 11001011001 0100010011 110010111101 010111 01110111 101 1110100101 01000010 1010101001 110111101 00101100101 101 11101011001 1010010100 111000101 101 11001010 1010001 01010101011 1 10000100100 1110101 0011000
Amount of stanzas: 9
Average number of symbols per stanza: 177
Average number of words per stanza: 31
Amount of lines: 53
Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; to is repeated.
The author used the same word have at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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