Poem Analysis of I See This Reflected by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem I See This Reflected that begins with:

I used to think of them as funny too.
People who acted foolishly, ...

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Rhyme scheme: abXcbb XddcXef cccXfae
Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,7,7,
Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 1101001101 10110100 0010111110 01 0111011110101000 110001011001000 11011110 11001101100100 10101101001111 111010000010001 10001010101101 001010101101101010 1 11100100101011101 11000100100 100010100010011 1010001110001 1101010110001 11110011 001010111001110100
Amount of stanzas: 3
Average number of symbols per stanza: 310
Average number of words per stanza: 53
Amount of lines: 20
Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
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, with, to, they 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.

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