Poem Analysis of Put Down Your Weapon by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Put Down Your Weapon that begins with:

No one.
No one I have ever met to come to know, ...

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Rhyme scheme: abXcddaecfcd ghhXcag XXdeeac X ddeXbac XXcaf
Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,7,7,1,7,5,
Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 11 11111010101 1010100111 10001011001 10110 1000111 110100010 01011101011 110010010 0100001010100 11001111001 1010110101110 111010001 11001111001 101110101 1111010100 1110010101010 1110101010010 1000110101100101 110000011101001 101010101110101101 1011011111001 111111100100 101001111 1010011101110 01101001111110 1101011100 1101 1010101 11100100 010111010 1 11110 1011011001 101 1 111110 10
Amount of stanzas: 7
Average number of symbols per stanza: 199
Average number of words per stanza: 34
Amount of lines: 38
Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
Average number of words per line: 6
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; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word no is repeated.

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Put Down Your Weapon by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

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