Poem Analysis of You Passed Bad Judgement by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem You Passed Bad Judgement that begins with:

Did it trouble you enough inside yourself,
To lock and block out my love for you? ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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Rhyme scheme: ABCBCd E dfgfah hhafchifXh hbjhb ABCBCd E kklXc mdbjlkhXm hgkkiXXeb
Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,1,6,10,5,6,1,5,9,9,
Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: ballad stanza
Metre: 00101010110 011111111 001011 1011111 0111111 11111111001 011010100 1 10110 1010101 1010110010 1011011 11 11 11 01011 11011010111 111101010 01111 0101010101 0101111 111011 1100111100 111000101011011 10110111 1 01101 1111 00101010110 011111111 001011 1011111 0111111 11111111001 011010100 0101110101 11 01110 110110010 0110011 110010 111101111 0101 010110101 110111010 111011 11110 11001 0101101 1011111001 1010111010001010 0101011100010 10111000101 1101100100011 11001110110110001 110 011010011
Amount of stanzas: 11
Average number of symbols per stanza: 158
Average number of words per stanza: 30
Amount of lines: 57
Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, i are repeated.

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You Passed Bad Judgement by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

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