Poem Analysis of To Those Born After by Bertolt Brecht for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem To Those Born After that begins with:

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To the cities I came in a time of disorder ...

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Rhyme scheme: X aaXXB ccXdB XcefXB eddgB X dedd ccgX XcfdcXacd
Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,5,5,6,5,1,4,4,9,
Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
Сlosest rhyme: couplets
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 1 0010110010010 111110 1100010001011 111101010 111111111001101 1111001010 11101010100 11011111 111010111010 111111111001101 010111011011 110110010 1111010 10111111111100 1111 111111111001101 1100111 11100110 10011 0111101110 111111111001101 1 11010010 001110111111 11111011001010 111101 1110101010 11011 1010010010 111100101111 1011100 100010101010 10101011101110 11110110010111100 11001001 100101110 1101011011100 11110010
Amount of stanzas: 10
Average number of symbols per stanza: 160
Average number of words per stanza: 30
Amount of lines: 39
Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; i, for, our are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, that's, our are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word earth at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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To Those Born After by Bertolt Brecht: poem analysis

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