Poem Analysis of If One Admits It by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem If One Admits It that begins with:

Being bottled up...
Can be resisted, ...

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Rhyme scheme: ABcDE FGBE FGBE BBFG BBBE FGBE ABcDE BBFGXdedd
Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,4,4,4,4,5,9,
Closest metre: iambic trimeter
Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 10101 10010 0 1010 0010101 100010 000111 111100010 11001 100010 000111 111100010 11001 101010 0010001 100010 000111 101010 0010001 111100010 1011101 100010 000111 111100010 1011101 10101 10010 0 1010 0010101 101010 0010001 100010 000111 101110 1011101 01010 010
Amount of stanzas: 9
Average number of symbols per stanza: 101
Average number of words per stanza: 21
Amount of lines: 38
Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, it, be are repeated.
The author used the same words pop, panic at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word quick at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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If One Admits It by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

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