Poem Analysis of With A Picking Up Of Pieces by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem With A Picking Up Of Pieces that begins with:

Betting to get even,
When the odds are not for all....

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Rhyme scheme: abcb DbCE abcE EFGE ECE ECE AecE AhXE XHCE XECE EFGE ECE XHCE XECE DbCE XHCE XECEXbE
Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,3,3,4,4,4,4,4,3,4,4,4,4,7,
Closest metre: iambic trimeter
Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 100110 1011111 110101 11011 10101 1010101 1010011 00101010 10101 0110101 01010011 10101010 1010111 111001 1110101 010101010 10101110111 0010001 10100110 10101110111 0010001 10100110 00111 1010111 0010011 10101010 00111 11011 01101 10101010 1 110111 011 10101010 1 110111 011 10101010 1010111 111001 1110101 010101010 10101110111 0010001 10100110 1 110111 011 10101010 1 110111 011 10101010 10101 10100101 1010011 00101010 1 110111 011 10101010 1 110111 011 10101010 0100010 00101010
Amount of stanzas: 18
Average number of symbols per stanza: 97
Average number of words per stanza: 19
Amount of lines: 67
Average number of symbols per line: 25 (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, their are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same words people, losers, with, boooo at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word pieces at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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