Those Who Pack Malice by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Those Who Pack Malice that begins with:

I don't carry malice.
But I am familiar, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ABC adXeadd ABCfe XfeX aedddXX X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,7,5,4,7,1,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111010 111010 001000 111110 1010010001 0101010 10101010010 11010010 010101010 1010101000011 111010 111010 001000 1001110010 0010101 111001010 01100101 1111001010 0101001011 00100110111 001010 1011110 10001011010100 100101010 1110101101000 01 10100010
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 145
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 27
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; to is repeated.

    The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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