Poem Analysis of Done And Over by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Done And Over that begins with:

You never knew what you meant to me.
But you found out....

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Rhyme scheme: ABB CABB CcDE ABB CABB CFCDEDD CdddDDE cFCDEDD ABB CABBdEgGG
Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,4,4,3,4,7,7,7,3,9,
Closest metre: iambic trimeter
Сlosest rhyme: couplets
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 110111101 1111 1111 11011 1110011 1111 0111 11111111 1101011111 001110 11101010 110111101 1111 1111 11011 1110011 1111 0111 11111111 110101 1111 001110 11101010 1110 1110 11011 111110 11111010 011110 1110 1110 11101010 1111111 110101 1111 001110 11101010 1110 1110 110111101 1111 1111 11011 1110011 1111 0111 1111110 11101010 111001 01 01
Amount of stanzas: 10
Average number of symbols per stanza: 120
Average number of words per stanza: 24
Amount of lines: 51
Average number of symbols per line: 23 (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; you, but, done, and, over are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words but, done, to are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines out, over, leave are repeated).

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Done And Over by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

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