Poem Analysis of That Is Not The Diet We Are Fed by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem That Is Not The Diet We Are Fed that begins with:

It would be wonderful to recognize our failings,
And immediately correct them....

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Rhyme scheme: ABacdaec fecgccf gecg aXegc ggcdc ABhcgch
Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,7,4,5,5,7,
Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
Сlosest rhyme: rima
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 0101000101110 101000010 1101110110100 111010011000001 110 11010011010 11010 111 01011110000001 1110 0101010011101 1100110100100100 101011010001 0101100100 1001101111001 111101000010 11101001 110110101 110010100100 1011010101001 11100001010010 101101 10100111011011 10001 100100000011 100110101100 101000110 10100100 110010100 0101000101110 101000010 1101010111 1110101 1101101110011 10111101010 0101
Amount of stanzas: 6
Average number of symbols per stanza: 230
Average number of words per stanza: 39
Amount of lines: 36
Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word we is repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase it connects the lines.

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