Poem Analysis of Sit And Fiddle With This by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Sit And Fiddle With This that begins with:

You're getting out of my life.
And not for one specific reason....

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Rhyme scheme: ABCCdAE ABCCdAE FGg FHg FGeGFHeG ABCCdGXFGeGFHeG
Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,3,3,8,15,
Closest metre: iambic trimeter
Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 1101011 111101010 11111001 010101 1 11011 011101010 1101011 111101010 11111001 010101 1 11011 011101010 11 111001 101011011111 11 111111 11101011101 11 111001 0 111110111000111 11 111111 0 111110111000111 1101011 111101010 11111001 010101 1 111110111000111 11 111001 0 111110111000111 11 111111 0 111110111000111
Amount of stanzas: 7
Average number of symbols per stanza: 170
Average number of words per stanza: 35
Amount of lines: 42
Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
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; and is repeated.
The author used the same words you're, go at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same words reasons, night at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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Sit And Fiddle With This by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

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