Poem Analysis of For The Record by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem For The Record that begins with:

For the record.
Let this today, ...

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Rhyme scheme: ABC ded fagda cgfad X ahgX XhaXa eXicicXABC
Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,5,5,1,4,5,10,
Closest metre: iambic trimeter
Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 1001 1001 001 1100001100 10111110 10000110 011110111 1010011 100100 1001 1001 0101110010 1011100 101000101 1001 001001 1001001 100101 11 0100100 1100100 0101 10100100 00010111010 0101100 1101010 001011110 001 110110100 01 11010101 011001000 1001 1001 001
Amount of stanzas: 9
Average number of symbols per stanza: 99
Average number of words per stanza: 16
Amount of lines: 35
Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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