Poem Analysis of Remember Needs by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Remember Needs that begins with:

Remember needs.
Focus not on familiar pleas of stress....

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Rhyme scheme: ABBCDE acccbb aaaFGXBHIC jJD FGXBHIC ABBCDEXAjJDAac
Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,10,3,7,14,
Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 0101 1011010101 010101100101 100101001 11010101010 110111010 01011 10101011 11001 011100011 01010010 11101 101010001 1010100 0011011 01100010111 0111101 101000 010110001 001011 00101010 1100101 101111 010000101 010001101 01100010111 0111101 101000 010110001 001011 00101010 1100101 0101 1011010101 010101100101 100101001 11010101010 110111010 0101 01111 010000101 010001101 0101 11 110011111
Amount of stanzas: 7
Average number of symbols per stanza: 193
Average number of words per stanza: 33
Amount of lines: 45
Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The author used the same word remember at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines needs is repeated).

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Remember Needs by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

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