Poem Analysis of I Have Chosen To Mend And Heal by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem I Have Chosen To Mend And Heal that begins with:

Even if I did have some time,
I'd make sure I had none, ...

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Rhyme scheme: ABCDCEF gdXhXg ABCDCEF hXXfg cii ABCDCEF jjf cf ekXgkibdbib iXg
Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,6,7,5,3,7,3,2,11,3,
Closest metre: iambic trimeter
Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 10010111 111111 11 1010111 1000111 010010 1110111 11101101 1011001011 101 101010011 10100010 10001010100 10010111 111111 11 1010111 1000111 010010 1110111 1100110101 011110101010 00111101 11011 01110 111011000011 111011100 110111111100 10010111 111111 11 1010111 1000111 010010 1110111 11100111 1111 0101101111 1101 1011 111101011 110 1010111 100111110 100 0101111 11010 11 010001011101 11111101 001000101 11 1011 01110
Amount of stanzas: 10
Average number of symbols per stanza: 152
Average number of words per stanza: 29
Amount of lines: 54
Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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, you, to, and are repeated.

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