Poem Analysis of Grateful And Pleased by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Grateful And Pleased that begins with:

I've been too real.
And I think, ...

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Rhyme scheme: ABC ddeefgdg hhfh b dhhfigdg ABC jklih mjmX hlghXkie
Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,8,4,1,8,3,5,4,8,
Closest metre: iambic trimeter
Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 1011 111 1101101 111010 0111 01101101 101001 0101 1101000 1010110 111001010 11000 1111001 111111 010101 11010111 111101 10100101 10101000010 0101000110 110100 101011101001001 101100110 00110111 1011 111 1101101 11110101011100 1101010 1010001 111010 111110111 111 101001110 011111 10010011 1110 0101011 110101101 1111001 111011 001111 11001110010
Amount of stanzas: 10
Average number of symbols per stanza: 124
Average number of words per stanza: 24
Amount of lines: 43
Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; they, been, to, so are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and 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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