Poem Analysis of We Need Not Fight by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem We Need Not Fight that begins with:

We don't need to fight.
To make a wrong thing right....

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Rhyme scheme: aaXXb X cacdXba ADA DDDE EADA AAA EDDDEXAAA
Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,1,7,3,4,4,3,9,
Closest metre: iambic trimeter
Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 11101 010111 11101 001 11010 111110110 1 111001 1101010 111101 0111010 100010 01001001 1101101 1101101 101001 1111111 11111111001 1101101 01010001 0101011 1101101 1101101 101001 1111 1111 1111 0101011 1111111 11111111001 1101101 01010001 1111 1111 1111
Amount of stanzas: 9
Average number of symbols per stanza: 102
Average number of words per stanza: 20
Amount of lines: 35
Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, we, need, not, fight are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word we is repeated.
The author used the same word we at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines fight is repeated).

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We Need Not Fight by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

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