Poem Analysis of If This Would Mean An End To A Chase by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

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I wish I could issue rose glasses to those in need.
Those hoping to get a taste of that dangling carrot....

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Rhyme scheme: ABXCDE cfgfgg ABXCDEXCbbcDE
Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,13,
Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 1111101100101 11001010110010 10101011011100 001111001 110001110100100 111011101 111110011011 010101 1101100110101100 100010111010 10101100110100 10110100101100 1111101100101 11001010110010 10101011011100 001111001 110001110100100 111011101 001111001 01111111 01010010 010110 110001110100100 111011101
Amount of stanzas: 4
Average number of symbols per stanza: 275
Average number of words per stanza: 50
Amount of lines: 24
Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word fantasize at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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