Poem Analysis of Separate Missions by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Separate Missions that begins with:

Critics rush to flap their lips,
To do this unsolicited....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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Rhyme scheme: ABCC DBBDB EFEA EBF EBF eXa ABCC EAEFXDBBDB
Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,4,3,3,3,4,10,
Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: couplets
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 1010111 01010100 1111010 0111010 111010010 00101 110101010 1010111 010101 10101110110 001011101 0101011101010 00101010 0100110 101010101 001010001 0100110 101010101 001010001 11010100 10101 10101010 1010111 01010100 1111010 0111010 0101011101010 00101010 10101110110 001011101 111010010 00101 110101010 1010111 010101
Amount of stanzas: 9
Average number of symbols per stanza: 122
Average number of words per stanza: 20
Amount of lines: 35
Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; to is repeated.
The author used the same word conditioned at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word exist at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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Separate Missions by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

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