Poem Analysis of I'Ve Come To Pinch Those Comfort Buttons by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem I'Ve Come To Pinch Those Comfort Buttons that begins with:

I've come to pinch those comfort buttons,
Of the ones feeling something will be gained... ...

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Rhyme scheme: ABC DcA EAA ACC ABC EAA ACCXDcA
Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,7,
Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 110111010 0011010001 011100101 110101110 1111010101 0101111 110001000111 110001000 11010110 110100010 11110100001 00101 110111010 0011010001 011100101 110001000111 110001000 11010110 110100010 11110100001 00101 110101110 11110101 0101111
Amount of stanzas: 8
Average number of symbols per stanza: 115
Average number of words per stanza: 22
Amount of lines: 24
Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The author used the same word there's at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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