Poem Analysis of People Can'T Give Their Conflicts Up by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem People Can'T Give Their Conflicts Up that begins with:

Why can't there always be a peace.
And why not.....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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Rhyme scheme: aBcBdE CFCBBD BABCBDE CFCBBD CFCBBD BABCBDE BDBBBGA BABCBDE BDBBBGAXBDBBBGABDBaBDBBBGa
Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,7,6,6,7,7,7,26,
Closest metre: iambic trimeter
Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 11111001 111 10101111 111 1100101101 010001101 111 101010010 111 10101001 11 110111001 1100 10111101 111 1001111 111 1100101101 010001101 111 101010010 111 10101001 11 110111001 111 101010010 111 10101001 11 110111001 1100 10111101 111 1001111 111 1100101101 010001101 1100 10111101 1100 10100101 1100 10011111 110101101 1100 10111101 111 1001111 111 1100101101 010001101 1100 10111101 1100 10100101 1100 10011111 110101101 1100 10111101 1100 10100101 1100 10011111 110101101 1100 10111101 1100 10101101 1100 10111101 1100 10100101 1100 10011111 110101111
Amount of stanzas: 10
Average number of symbols per stanza: 197
Average number of words per stanza: 41
Amount of lines: 77
Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
Average number of words per line: 5
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; why, to, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word escape at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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People Can'T Give Their Conflicts Up by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

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