Poem Analysis of I Cried Away The Tears From My Eyes by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem I Cried Away The Tears From My Eyes that begins with:

I cried away the tears from my eyes.
Trying to minimize the hurt I felt inside....

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Rhyme scheme: ABBCB AXdee ABBCBA AAbCb XXXd ABBXABBBb
Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,6,5,4,9,
Closest metre: iambic pentameter
Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: blank verse
Metre: 110101011 100101011101 1101111111 111111111 1010111011 110101011 01001100010101 110101001 01110101111 11001001101 110101011 100101011101 1101111111 111111111 1010111011 1011110101 110101011 1011110101 1111111011 111111111 11111011111 111101111 111100100101 11010001 1011 110101011 100101011101 1101111111 110101011 100101011101 1101111111 100101011101 1111011111
Amount of stanzas: 7
Average number of symbols per stanza: 194
Average number of words per stanza: 38
Amount of lines: 33
Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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, and 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.
The poet repeated the same word dried at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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