Poem Analysis of Those Accustomed To Sitting In Darkness by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Those Accustomed To Sitting In Darkness that begins with:

Shiny things fade.
Eyes upon them dim....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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Rhyme scheme: XXXabXXbab
Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
Closest metre: iambic trimeter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 1011 10101 010101 1100110 0101001 110101 010001101 11010010010 1 010
Amount of stanzas: 1
Average number of symbols per stanza: 252
Average number of words per stanza: 39
Amount of lines: 10
Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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Those Accustomed To Sitting In Darkness by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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