Poem Analysis of If I Found Love by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem If I Found Love that begins with:

If...
And with commitment to a giving, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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Rhyme scheme: aBCBDBCBABEBFBFfc GDF GHCIF GDFXggg aBCBDBCBABEBFBFgGDFfGHCIFaDJaDJaD
Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,3,5,7,33,
Closest metre: iambic trimeter
Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 0 100100010 11101 00100010 111 0010010 10101 100100010 10 10100010 011 000100010 111 00100010 110011 10010 001010 1011111 111 11010 1011101 0111 11110 1110101 011110101 1011111 111 11010 1 10001 101 00001 0 100100010 11101 00100010 111 0010010 10101 100100010 10 10100010 011 000100010 111 00100010 110011 1 1011111 111 11010 1 1011101 0111 11110 1110101 011110101 0 111 01001111 10 111 01001111 1100 111
Amount of stanzas: 5
Average number of symbols per stanza: 279
Average number of words per stanza: 51
Amount of lines: 65
Average number of symbols per line: 21 (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; to, love are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word or is repeated.
The author used the same word people at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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If I Found Love by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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