Poem Analysis of Simple Lyric by Brian Patten for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Simple Lyric that begins with:

When I think of her sparkling face
And of her body that rocked this way and that,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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Rhyme scheme: abcXd baE dfgbX gcXfc gXccEc
Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,3,5,5,6,
Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 111001001 10010110111 1110010 0100111 00101111 100111101111 101011111 10011110100 010101010 1101001 010110110 01010100100 1110100 01011000100110 11100101010 00010101011 10101110 00011110 11010101110 01110010 11110011010010 100100110 10011110100 111101100
Amount of stanzas: 5
Average number of symbols per stanza: 180
Average number of words per stanza: 35
Amount of lines: 24
Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, of, that, i are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word her at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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