Poem Analysis of Retired To Expire by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Retired To Expire that begins with:

Retired to expire from my mind,
Are those 'what ifs'....

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Rhyme scheme: AXX bcdeeebdfdf AXXaadXag AXXcgeXa
Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,11,9,8,
Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: rima
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 01001011 1111 01110111 1101 111111 10010000101 1100100111 010111001 1001001111 0101001 111000011 101001101111 1111010011 10100011001111 01001011 1111 01110111 110111111 010101001 101110101101 01010001 101010101001 100010101010 01001011 1111 01110111 110001 0101000110 101011 0100010 11001001
Amount of stanzas: 4
Average number of symbols per stanza: 276
Average number of words per stanza: 52
Amount of lines: 31
Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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, it are repeated.
The author used the same word retired at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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