Poem Analysis of Kept Principles by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Kept Principles that begins with:

Never have I switched my interests,
To express indifference to neglect....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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Rhyme scheme: ABCAD bebbafaXbXXa gdhggcfXX ABCAD XX C X idiXXhXeddgXc XbXXidC
Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,12,9,5,2,1,1,13,7,
Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 101111100 0010100001 1101100101000 0011100 001001010 111001 011010100010 11010001011 011010110001 111011100 110111101000 0100010100 11010101 1010001101111 1001011110 11101110010001 0101 1111111 1 11101111 0101111 11 111110 101010100 111110101010 01110111011 101111100 0010100001 1101100101000 0011100 001001010 1 11100111111100 1101101111100 111101 110111011 011100 110110111110 111011 011011111 1111111101 1 11001011010 11010101001 110011101 10101001 111001 111010101 1 01001110 1100111100 110101100 11 1101101111100
Amount of stanzas: 10
Average number of symbols per stanza: 184
Average number of words per stanza: 35
Amount of lines: 54
Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
Average number of words per line: 6
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, my, i, you are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me is repeated).

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Kept Principles by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

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