Poem Analysis of I'M Not One Of Those Peephole Old People by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem I'M Not One Of Those Peephole Old People that begins with:

I'm not a portrait painting on a canvas.
Waiting for a visit to exhibit....

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Rhyme scheme: ABCDddEf AB dEf dEf CDAB dEf dEf ABCDdABCDddEf C dEf D dEf CDdAB dEf dEf dEfXCDCDDDd
Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,2,3,3,4,3,3,13,1,3,1,3,5,3,3,11,
Closest metre: iambic trimeter
Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 01010101010 1010100010 0110110110 10101111 1 1 11 01 01010101010 1010100010 1 11 01 1 11 01 0110110110 10101111 01010101010 1010100010 1 11 01 1 11 01 01010101010 1010100010 0110110110 10101111 1 01010101010 1010100010 0110110110 10101111 1 1 11 01 0110110110 1 11 01 10101111 1 11 01 0110110110 10101111 1 01010101010 1010100010 1 11 01 1 11 01 1 11 01 0110110110 10101111 0110110110 10101111 11 11 1
Amount of stanzas: 17
Average number of symbols per stanza: 79
Average number of words per stanza: 15
Amount of lines: 68
Average number of symbols per line: 19 (very short strings)
Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, all, day are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word all is repeated.
The author used the same words i'm, i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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I'M Not One Of Those Peephole Old People by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

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