Poem Analysis of There Is Nothing Here To Keep You by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem There Is Nothing Here To Keep You that begins with:

There is nothing here to keep you.
Nothing I do to sustain your interest....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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Rhyme scheme: ABACAA AADAAAA cXXbedfXf ABACAA AADAAAAXe
Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,7,9,6,9,
Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 10101011 10110011100 00010011 1111010 1010001 10101011 10101011 11111 11101 10101101111 110100101 001011101 110101011 111110101010 1101111111 1111011 0100111 1111001 1010011 111101 100110111010 01010111011 10101011 10110011100 00010011 1111010 1010001 10101011 10101011 11111 11101 10101101111 110100101 001011101 110101011 110011 111111011011
Amount of stanzas: 5
Average number of symbols per stanza: 248
Average number of words per stanza: 48
Amount of lines: 37
Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, i, too, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word there is repeated.
The author used the same word there at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word you at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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There Is Nothing Here To Keep You by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

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