Poem Analysis of Two Hours Too Late Too Much by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Two Hours Too Late Too Much that begins with:

I can not mend a fragmented World.
Nor can I fix those addicted to delusions....

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Rhyme scheme: abaacad XXedXaf eXX geBhaafaaeci X Xcfai XX geBaXh
Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,3,12,1,5,2,6,
Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 111101001 111110100010 11101101001110 001110010 1111010100110 1101110101 011111010 10100101111010 01100000110 00111010101 10100 010111100010 001011001101 1110101100001 1010110101101 1101 001111000110 1 1 111100110 111001111 11100100010011 110011001 11 10110111111001 1 11011101 1111011111111 1101 110011101 110110010110000 0101 1101111001001 1110011101110 111000011101011 1111 10010101001000100 1 1 111100110 11101010 1010111 1011111
Amount of stanzas: 8
Average number of symbols per stanza: 188
Average number of words per stanza: 36
Amount of lines: 43
Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; i, can, to, your, and, too are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.

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Two Hours Too Late Too Much by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

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