Poem Analysis of My Eyes Are Fixed Only Upon The Dealer by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

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Rhyme scheme: ABCDEA fgghfdgXhija ABCDEA jhXiXdXe
Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,12,6,8,
Closest metre: iambic trimeter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 1110 10111 011 11111111101 101010101 0111111 10011111 10100010111 10101101011 101010 001110100001 0010101 1010110100101 1 11011011101 1101001011 11 01011101011 1110 10111 011 11111111101 101010101 0111111 10110010011111 10110100101 11101 10111 11111001010 10 0001 11
Amount of stanzas: 4
Average number of symbols per stanza: 240
Average number of words per stanza: 48
Amount of lines: 32
Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.

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