Poem Analysis of That's What Woke Me Up by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem That's What Woke Me Up that begins with:

In disbelief?
I was too, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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Rhyme scheme: ABC DECE fgcch Xijk XCILJihiijgGBf XXke ABCDE CEXCI LJdicgXgGBfc
Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,4,5,4,14,4,5,5,12,
Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 0101 111 011010 1101 111110 10110 01110010 1111010 01011111 1110101011 0111101 11111 111011011 111100 11101101 110101101000 01111 10101011 0100101 101011110 11111110 110010100000 00101011101 11100010 11010110 110110111001001 1111101110 0101101110 101 010011101 1111011 1010101101001 010110100 11111001001 0101 111 011010 1101 111110 10110 01110010 01111 10101011 0100101 101011110 11111110 01111001110 11000010 11010011110 0010101010011 1111101 0101101110 101 11110101111 10100110
Amount of stanzas: 10
Average number of symbols per stanza: 165
Average number of words per stanza: 31
Amount of lines: 55
Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
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, that, be, and, they are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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That's What Woke Me Up by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

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