Poem Analysis of Don'T You Know by Edgar Albert Guest for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Don'T You Know that begins with:

H'it's h'easy to be 'appy,
Don't you know;...

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Rhyme scheme: XAbAbXbA XAXAXccA bAbAddXA dAdAXeeA fAfAdddA dAdAgggA
Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,
Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 1100010 111 11101010 111 10111010 10101010 11101010 111 100111110 111 11111010 111 1111110 10101011 10111011 111 10101110 111 10111010 111 1001010 01111010 11111110 111 11111010 111 100111010 111 1111101 11101010 11111010 111 10101011 111 01111011 111 11111110 11111110 111010010 111 11111110 111 11110010 111 10101110 10101100 11111110 111
Amount of stanzas: 6
Average number of symbols per stanza: 218
Average number of words per stanza: 40
Amount of lines: 48
Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; h'i, it are repeated.
The author used the same word o at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word know at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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