Poem Analysis of Of Image. And Not Substance by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Of Image. And Not Substance that begins with:

We were hired to clean this house,
But where are all the supplies to do it? ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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Rhyme scheme: ab aXXcX Xacbd XX XdXX X edeca XadXXb
Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,5,5,2,4,1,5,6,
Closest metre: iambic trimeter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 10100101 1111001010 11100 1101 0100101 111001 001010101100 000101 0111001 100101011 101010010 1001110 101010 11001001 1010111 001110 110 10110101 1110001011011 101 111100110010 0001101 1 1010101111010 11 01110 11010010 11100 111011
Amount of stanzas: 9
Average number of symbols per stanza: 90
Average number of words per stanza: 17
Amount of lines: 29
Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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.

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Of Image. And Not Substance by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

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