Poem Analysis of You Should Be Teaching by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem You Should Be Teaching that begins with:

What can be done,
About the failures taking place......

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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Rhyme scheme: ABCAca daXefX ABCA Xcb cagaXcXe cX ABCA cfdbX higeg aegbX gj XXXjhX cceX i bcXhhXXeX
Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,4,3,8,2,4,5,5,5,2,6,4,1,9,
Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 1101 01010101 0010101 00101010 001011010 01001010 10 11011 0110100100 1010101 10110100 1110100 1101 01010101 0010101 00101010 10110001 1011010 111101 11010 1110010100 01110 110101110 110110 11010110 1100101001 1011111 11011101 11001010101 1101 01010101 0010101 00101010 101 11110100100 111010110 010 1011 1 11110111010 1011100010 111110101 101110010 10010 0111111 0110011011 10010100010101 110011111 111101010 111001 110110 111001111000 1100010010100 00010100101001101 11 1101010 101000111011001 1 110100101 111001011 11010 110101 10110 1011101 1110110111 10101 11101 111001111010101 0111001100101111 110110101
Amount of stanzas: 15
Average number of symbols per stanza: 147
Average number of words per stanza: 25
Amount of lines: 70
Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; and, it, day are repeated.

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