Poem Analysis of Poisoned And With Intention by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Poisoned And With Intention that begins with:

Heightened and enforced surpervised surveillance,
Has yet to prove the decrease of threats protects....

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Rhyme scheme: AAbcbXa dXd eafbfXAAdacea
Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,3,13,
Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 101011000010 11010010101 101100101 01011110010 110100010011 1110111101 00101100101101 10001010001011 11100011001 00101001001010100 101111001110 00111001101 0101011 01101111 001111101011 101011000010 11010010101 1011110101001 101001100 11010010101010 011101010010 0010010010001010100
Amount of stanzas: 4
Average number of symbols per stanza: 271
Average number of words per stanza: 42
Amount of lines: 22
Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, of are repeated.

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