Poem Analysis of Just Accepting by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Just Accepting that begins with:

I don't follow politics.
Nor do I religiously worship, ...

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Rhyme scheme: ABCdcc EECA FCFgFhFi FXFhFjfj EECA ABCdchX XCcgjFfi
Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,4,8,8,4,7,8,
Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 1110101 111010010 1111101 11100100101 11101010001001 010001111101100 1111111 110110010001 111110001111 11111011011 1010 01111 111010 01111 1010 10101100 111010 011011010101 1010 11101001001 111010 001101110111 1010 00110110111010 11010 01101110011 1111111 110110010001 111110001111 11111011011 1110101 111010010 1111101 111001001111 1111011010001 0100110101111 010001 101011 01111 1111 11011 00101010111 111010 0110101011010 001
Amount of stanzas: 7
Average number of symbols per stanza: 210
Average number of words per stanza: 41
Amount of lines: 45
Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
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; i, to, my are repeated.
The author used the same words i, just at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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Just Accepting by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

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