Poem Analysis of An Accepted Way Of Life by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem An Accepted Way Of Life that begins with:

I can today admit it.
I had been trained to be tolerant, ...

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Rhyme scheme: AABCB dXdbX XXbde AABCB fbfde
Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,
Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 1101010 110100100 00101010 000100010 00101010100 111010111010 101011010111010 00100111100010 0110001000001010 1101010111001 101 1 111111000101100 11111011101101 11111100111 1101010 110100100 00101010 000100010 00101010100 1111 11101000101100 111 101001011101101 11010110100101
Amount of stanzas: 5
Average number of symbols per stanza: 187
Average number of words per stanza: 35
Amount of lines: 25
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; to, and, it, i, not are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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