Poem Analysis of Over Medicating With A Self Importance by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Over Medicating With A Self Importance that begins with:

We can't imitate the living of life.
We can, ...

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Rhyme scheme: ABcDeFGH Afib bfXhff Agij BcDjdj ffeFGH jjjgfjj fbgjbgghcXh
Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,6,4,6,6,7,11,
Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 1110101001 11 110 01100101 01001000 11111 1010001 111011 1110101001 1110110110001 11101101100 0010100010101 1011110 011111100 101010010101 0010011 10010101001 10101100100110 1110101001 1110100 101010011 0101011 11 110 01100101 01001111 101100111 10100101000 110110 01110010 11001000 11111 1010001 111011 111001101 00010010110 10100111110 101 11110110100 00101111 0110101 11101010001010 111001010 101101 000100001110 00110100010 11 101 1101 110 11111 11011001
Amount of stanzas: 8
Average number of symbols per stanza: 202
Average number of words per stanza: 36
Amount of lines: 52
Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
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; to, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word we is repeated.
The author used the same word we at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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