Poem Analysis of Those...Inequities! by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Those...Inequities! that begins with:

There is a rush...
To correct, silence and hush, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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Rhyme scheme: AAXXbX bcdeb AAX eXfgdg dXdec bbdcdXb XXbdb hhbeXXfd
Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,5,3,6,5,7,5,8,
Closest metre: iambic trimeter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 1001 0011011 10000 10100101 011101 00100 01101 1010100 11111 011010011 11010101 1001 0011011 10000 11 0100110100 101010 010010001 00101101 101011 001011011 01100101011 1010010 0011 10101011101 111010 010010 00100111 10 1001010 011010 10110011101 11000 1 1010 0001011010 0001010010 1110110 11 1100010 001001011 1 1001001 010110001010 1010111101
Amount of stanzas: 8
Average number of symbols per stanza: 153
Average number of words per stanza: 25
Amount of lines: 45
Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words those, to, with are repeated.
The author used the same word but at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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Those...Inequities! by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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