Poem Analysis of Set Into Motion by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Set Into Motion that begins with:

Methods of discrediting,
For the purpose to diminish one's influence......

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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Rhyme scheme: ABCD Xced bfg abcheecX fXe gbbif jjigcehbgc cgf gagc bddXbhigg ABCD gcXb kiac ihidjfkb ccXgg XX
Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,8,3,5,10,3,4,9,4,4,4,8,5,2,
Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 1000100 101000101100 1010100010 1101011010 10100111111101000 1111010101010 0101100011110 00111101001010 111110 110111010101 1011110001 10111000010 101001110101 1 1011111010011001 1001010 11111010110 1101 0110011111011 10010010 1011101011 11010011010 101001000111001 1111 11010110101 100010101 10111 10100101 101111111 100110100 111 01010011010001 110011110 101001 1010011001 0110101 110101 1110101011 11 0110010 1100111 10111010110 11101101 1111 10010111010 10111101 1111011 00010010 0011100110 011001 0100100 1111110111 101111001 1000100 101000101100 1010100010 1101011010 1111 111110010 01100000 11110111001001 1111001001001 11001011001110 0010101010 011010111101 111110101 01110001001 111110100100 111001111101 111101010101 111011110101 11010001 1010100101110 100 1 101 1 11010011 10 10
Amount of stanzas: 16
Average number of symbols per stanza: 175
Average number of words per stanza: 31
Amount of lines: 80
Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, to, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word ahhhmen 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.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ahhhmen is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase ahhhmen connects the lines.

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Set Into Motion by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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