Poem Analysis of People Can't Get Over by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem People Can't Get Over that begins with:

People can't get over,
Being deceived to believe it....

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Rhyme scheme: ABCD ABCD Ebfg EbfbXf ACAe ACAC ABAHaIAgi ACAC ABAHaIAi AEAEXAc
Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,6,4,4,9,4,8,7,
Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 101110 10010010 1011011 1111 101110 10010010 1011011 1111 101010011 1 0100010 0101 101010011 1 0111010 111101 110001 1011101 101110 0101010 101110 111001 101110 0101010 101110 110111 101110 011101 10101110 11000 0101110 11001 101110 01100 1011101 101110 0101010 101110 110111 101110 011101 10101110 11000 10101110 11001 101110 011001 101110 1110101 101110 1110101 101110 1011
Amount of stanzas: 11
Average number of symbols per stanza: 127
Average number of words per stanza: 23
Amount of lines: 53
Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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 words people, others at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word live at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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People Can't Get Over by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

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