Poem Analysis of Initiative, Discipline And Desire by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Initiative, Discipline And Desire that begins with:

I have been successful.
With attention given....

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Rhyme scheme: XXabb bccXd aXddb dbdaX
Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,
Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
Сlosest rhyme: couplets
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 110010 001010 111101101 101100111 01001001010101 101101010001011 0010001101 11111001 11001011 111101 11010100011001 1110101001010 111000100 101010 1101010001 10010001000 11110101 101001000010110 11111111 001011110011110
Amount of stanzas: 4
Average number of symbols per stanza: 196
Average number of words per stanza: 35
Amount of lines: 20
Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; to, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.

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