Poem Analysis of Scapegoats by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Scapegoats that begins with:

Of course they are prepared,
To blame him for their failures....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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Rhyme scheme: abcc Defggbda bffhbabei Dfbhijb X XXbccka efXfebk ebcefX eiXXj
Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,8,9,7,1,7,7,6,5,
Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 011101 0111110 1111001 101111 11101010 1010011 11100 1101 1110101 0010 101010011100 0011010 0101011 1011 100100100 1110 1010101 1100101 10111 11011100 101 11101010 1 1010101101001 11001110 011 010011110111 11110101 111100010010001 1 1110111 10010110 101001 1001 10100100 0101 1111011 010100111 100101000101101 1011 01000010000 1001010111010 01000100010100 1 10100100101110010 01010101010 1101111100001 010010101101000100 0010010101110 11010010 010100110101 10101100101010 10010101100100001010 111010110101001
Amount of stanzas: 9
Average number of symbols per stanza: 199
Average number of words per stanza: 33
Amount of lines: 55
Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
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; their is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

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Scapegoats by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

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