Poem Analysis of Don'T Own Those Woes by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Don'T Own Those Woes that begins with:

Let go of a tightening hold.
Loosen up and remove that load....

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Rhyme scheme: AAAB AAAB CDCD CeDCeD DeDDeD AAAB DeDDeD DaDDeDDeD AAABDaDXBEBEBEBE
Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,6,6,4,6,9,16,
Closest metre: iambic trimeter
Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 11001001 10110111 011111 1111010 11001001 10110111 011111 1111010 111111 11111101 111111 11111101 1111111 1 11111101 1111111 1 11111101 1111111 1 11111101 1111111 1 11111101 11001001 10110111 011111 1111010 1111111 1 11111101 1111111 1 11111101 1101111 1 11111101 1111111 1 11111101 1111111 1 11111101 11001001 10110111 011111 1111010 1101111 1 11111101 1111 101 1111 101 1111 101 1111 101
Amount of stanzas: 10
Average number of symbols per stanza: 154
Average number of words per stanza: 31
Amount of lines: 58
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; stop, those, that, you, own, woes are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words stop, don't are repeated.
The author used the same words let, don't at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same words shoulders, lot at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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Don'T Own Those Woes by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

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