Poem Analysis of With A Lesser Chance To Be Evil by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem With A Lesser Chance To Be Evil that begins with:

Giving 'in' wasn't enough.
I had to give up and walk away, ...

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Rhyme scheme: ABXXcde Aafbebgff XhhX bGbGdGdGIGJG ABXXc IGJGXJGJGJG
Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,9,4,12,5,11,
Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 1011001 110111101 0111 11101 11101 0001110 0110110101 1011001 10100111101 1 1101111 011101101 11110100 0110110 110010111111001 11111111 1 1010101111111 01111000111101 111101000100 1010101 001010010 111000101 001010010 10101011 001010010 10110001 001010010 11110100 001010010 11011101 001010010 1011001 110111101 0111 11101 10111 11110100 001010010 11011101 001010010 11011101 001010010 11011101 001010010 11011101 001010010
Amount of stanzas: 7
Average number of symbols per stanza: 221
Average number of words per stanza: 43
Amount of lines: 47
Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
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; i, my, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word giving is repeated.
The author used the same words giving, i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word evil at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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With A Lesser Chance To Be Evil by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

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