Poem Analysis of It's As If Insanity Is Intended by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem It's As If Insanity Is Intended that begins with:

As long as the beatings seem to defeat,
They will be treated with signs of support....

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Rhyme scheme: aaabc bbXadcb Xc ceaXX b eXXaeXcde aeccbeXXabaee
Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,7,2,5,1,9,13,
Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 1110101001 1001001001 101001010001 100010 1101001 10010100001 11010011010101 101001001 1101001 01001001 0101010001101010 01000100100101 11101001011100 11111101 0101011011110101 0101 101111 1101110 0101110111 110111010 10110 1 1 1 1101001110 101010 10110010100 0001010001 010011101010110 11010011101 11110 1110011010110 10100110010110 01001000010 1010101010 1000 111101 111100111 010001010101010 01110 10110
Amount of stanzas: 8
Average number of symbols per stanza: 183
Average number of words per stanza: 32
Amount of lines: 41
Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, those, of are repeated.

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