Poem Analysis of So Help Me God by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem So Help Me God that begins with:

It wasn't me!
But you who were maneuvered, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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Rhyme scheme: ABCDEB bbbeXabafghd ABCDEB eeediX ABCDEB ejeccXgfeg eJAIKe ABCDEB halcbba XX hhgi eJAIKhXeb he ildbi aXb
Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,12,6,6,6,10,6,6,7,2,4,9,2,5,3,
Closest metre: iambic trimeter
Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 0101 1110010 01011 0010 101001 110101010 111101010 110 001110010 10101010001 1110101010 1 010101 011100111 10 1101010100 00111 1101001 0101 1110010 01011 0010 101001 110101010 11110100111 11101010111 10111101 11010 110101100 010101001000 0101 1110010 01011 0010 101001 110101010 1111011 10010101 100010 11 1101011 11111111 100110101 011101 111101001 1101 1111 1110101 11001101 10100111010 101110 110101100100 0101 1110010 01011 0010 101001 110101010 1111010100 111111001 1011110010 00110011 011101 1011001 1100111 1 111 11100100 1010110010 1101010 011110 11111 1110101 11001101 10100111010 101110 0111 00101000 1010001100100 1111 111111100100 1111101011 1110 011101 001001 1101 111111010 1 111 0111110
Amount of stanzas: 15
Average number of symbols per stanza: 165
Average number of words per stanza: 31
Amount of lines: 90
Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
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; you, to, i are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase it connects the lines.

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So Help Me God by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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