Poem Analysis of Of Love I Know And Knew Too Well by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Of Love I Know And Knew Too Well that begins with:

I've made too much of love.
I've made too much of its importance....

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Rhyme scheme: ABCDD EEeAB CFebX ABCDD GHCEA GHCEAXACFEEeeh
Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,14,
Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 111101 111100010 11010110010 010011010010 11001001011 10001010111 11101011001 111011001100 111101 111100010 11010110110 1010101 0101011110 10101001 1000101101 111101 111100010 11010110010 010011010010 11001001011 0101010001110 100100111 110111 10011111101 11111101001 0101010001110 100100111 110111 10011111101 11111101001 111101 11010110110 1010101 10001010111 11101011001 1 01111010 1101111111
Amount of stanzas: 7
Average number of symbols per stanza: 202
Average number of words per stanza: 41
Amount of lines: 38
Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
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, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i've is repeated.
The author used the same word addicted at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word crave at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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