Poem Analysis of Invisible Strings by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Invisible Strings that begins with:

Addicted is a dependency,
Consented to defend it....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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Rhyme scheme: ABBC dceXc bfef eeXXf egbhg ABBC bffchg X hhXg X cafdcXb
Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,4,5,5,4,6,1,4,1,7,
Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 010000100 0100010 1010001 001010010 01011100 0010111 111101001 1000110 111 1101011 101001001011 1100011110 001001111 1111110 11001 101001110 110110 010101 111110 0010001 101100101 001001010 1101011011 010000100 0100010 1010001 001010010 1001010111 1011100011 011010101 1011010111 1010010 00100010001 111111111 101110 1011101101 1101 1101001 100011111 1110111 101000 10111 0101 001110001 110110 011001
Amount of stanzas: 11
Average number of symbols per stanza: 130
Average number of words per stanza: 22
Amount of lines: 46
Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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 is repeated.
The author used the same word we at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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Invisible Strings by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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