Poem Analysis of This Fairytale Told by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem This Fairytale Told that begins with:

There are two sides,
Of this fairytale told to be sold....

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Rhyme scheme: ABCAADE cXffXee aaXfXfa ggaXXabg ABCAADE bX edeX XX XefXebb XeX
Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,8,7,2,4,2,7,3,
Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 1111 001011001 111100101 1010111101 101011001 111011000 010100101 1110101 110110101 101110101 0110001 00101100111 101011001 111010101101 0100010101101 1100110011011 01010110 1010010001 1010111010010 10111 1101101000111 01001011001 01101001101 11010101001 1111001 0101101000011101 1111101000011110 1111110010 11101001011 1111 001011001 111100101 1010111101 101011001 111011000 010100101 10101110 10101011101110 11 01100100100 1101110 111011 1 0110110100010110 1 1101 01001 10111101 11100011001 010111001 101010001011 1 01 111
Amount of stanzas: 10
Average number of symbols per stanza: 191
Average number of words per stanza: 34
Amount of lines: 54
Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; there, to, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words on, they are repeated.

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This Fairytale Told by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

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