Poem Analysis of I Can'T Admit To Secrets by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem I Can'T Admit To Secrets that begins with:

Accept to believe it,
Because it's true....

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Rhyme scheme: ABAB CDcC aacbcXX CDCC ABaB CCca CCCAacCCAcCCaXABAB
Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,7,4,4,4,18,
Closest metre: iambic trimeter
Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 010010 0101 01110 0101 1101010 01110101 11101010 01110101 101010001 111100001 11110 01 11101010 01 111001111 1101010 01110101 11101010 01110101 010010 0101 010110 0101 1101010 11101010 1010010 0111111 1101010 11111101 110 01010101 1101001 11110 11111101 110 01010101 1101010 1101010 11111101 11011111 010010 0101 01110 0101
Amount of stanzas: 8
Average number of symbols per stanza: 149
Average number of words per stanza: 29
Amount of lines: 44
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; i, to, secrets are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines secrets is repeated).

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