Poem Analysis of The Ordinance In Effect by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem The Ordinance In Effect that begins with:

The ordinance in effect,
Has protected those entitlements....

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Rhyme scheme: ABAC ABACDe FGFG AHAbc HIHX FGFG HIHX ABACDeX XhXhXhX AHAbc XhXc
Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,6,4,5,4,4,4,7,7,5,4,
Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 0100001 101010100 0100001 101010100 0100001 101010100 0100001 101010100 10100010 010010101 110101010 0010001 110101010 1110111 0100001 101011111 0100001 01 0100 110101111001 0101 110101111001 010 110101010 0010001 110101010 1110111 110101111001 0101 110101111001 010 0100001 101010100 0100001 101010100 10100010 1101010101 11011100101 1101011110100 011010 1101011110100 001010 1101011110100 001010 0101010 0100001 101011111 0100001 01 0100 1101011110100 01010 1101011110100 1010100
Amount of stanzas: 11
Average number of symbols per stanza: 160
Average number of words per stanza: 27
Amount of lines: 54
Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
Average number of words per line: 5
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 author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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The Ordinance In Effect by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

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