Poem Analysis of I'M Not Certified With Those Qualifications by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem I'M Not Certified With Those Qualifications that begins with:

I've come to you to feed you love.
Not treat you with a desserting, ...

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Rhyme scheme: AXBcdCE fGH AXBCE fGH AddXiXi
Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,3,5,3,7,
Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: ballad stanza
Metre: 11010111 11100100 0110010101 111011 10111010 101110101 10100101 1 1111001 11010011 11010111 11100100 0110010101 101110101 10100101 1 1111001 11010011 11010111 11111 0101101 110110101 011010110010 101111010 00011101
Amount of stanzas: 5
Average number of symbols per stanza: 149
Average number of words per stanza: 30
Amount of lines: 25
Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word as is repeated.

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