Poem Analysis of I Am 'Not' That Intelligent by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem I Am 'Not' That Intelligent that begins with:

So blessed am I to know with conviction,
I am 'not' that intelligent enough to be persuaded......

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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Rhyme scheme: XaXXabcdXc XXedbeXffb
Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,
Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 1111010010 111101000100010 110101010101 1011101011001 01001001101010 00101001100010 11 1111010110 00111000001101 00101011011110100 110 100100100001010100 11101010010100001 0110 1001000011 11010110 01100011101 10100101010111 11001100111 11101010100101
Amount of stanzas: 2
Average number of symbols per stanza: 418
Average number of words per stanza: 76
Amount of lines: 20
Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.

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