Poem Analysis of As I Step Over A Puddle At The End Of Winter, I Think Of An Ancient Chinese Governor by James Arlington Wright for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem As I Step Over A Puddle At The End Of Winter, I Think Of An Ancient Chinese Governor that begins with:

And how can I, born in evil days
And fresh from failure, ask a kindness of Fate?...

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Rhyme scheme: ab X cdXXaeXdX cdbaXdXeaXa
Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,1,9,11,
Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 111110101 11010101001 1011 1111011010 101 1101 01001000100011 1101011010 01101001110 0010010 11011 11 100100110101 1011010100 1111111 0011110 100110111 100111101100 0010001010011110 10110011100010 0110100101010110 111010010011 10100
Amount of stanzas: 4
Average number of symbols per stanza: 203
Average number of words per stanza: 39
Amount of lines: 24
Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
Average number of words per line: 7
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; where is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, where are repeated.

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