Poem Analysis of With An Intent To Incriminate by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem With An Intent To Incriminate that begins with:

Let's begin to unravel this mess,
You began to complicate....

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Rhyme scheme: ababcbbaadaca XX eeaXfXde XX dbafX X c XX d X ca bX f XX e X daa X Xaa
Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,2,8,2,5,1,1,2,1,1,2,2,1,2,1,1,3,1,3,
Closest metre: iambic trimeter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 101001001 1010101 1011010001 11000101 100010011 0101 010100101 110111100 101010101 011010 01001101101 111101 01010 11101111010 0101 1 101011 01001 010111101 010111100 11000010 10100111110110 1111111 1 1101110011011 0 1101 110101001 0010111100 10111001011 11011 1 1010101101 11110 1 1010111101 0100101111101 1101010101 11 10110011101 11 1 1001011 1 111100011 011100111010 101001001 110101010 11100 100 10101 1110111010
Amount of stanzas: 19
Average number of symbols per stanza: 78
Average number of words per stanza: 15
Amount of lines: 52
Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, you, i, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.

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