Poem Analysis of A Word To The Unwise by Ambrose Bierce for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem A Word To The Unwise that begins with:

Charles Main, of Main & Winchester, attend
With friendly ear the chit-chat of a friend... full text

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Rhyme scheme: aaba aaca ddXd bbab eede ffaf ddXd ggag ccac hhdh iihiXccic
Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
Closest metre: iambic pentameter
Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: blank verse
Metre: 1010111001 0101011001 1111111111 1011110101 1101010101 1101010111 1101010101 0111010111 1011010101 1101011101 1101011101 1101011101 10111011111 0101010101 0101010101 0101111101 0100110101 1101010101 0101000101 1101010001 0100110101 1001000111 1001011111 1101011101 0101010011 1101010101 1101010101 1001110101 1101110101 1101010101 11101110101 0111110101 1110010001 1001010011 1101010111 0101110101 1100011111 0100110111 11010101 0101010101 1111010011 1100000011 10010001101 1101010111 0101000100 1101010111 1101011111 10101010011
Amount of stanzas: 12
Average number of symbols per stanza: 168
Average number of words per stanza: 31
Amount of lines: 48
Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word a at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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