Poem Analysis of Seek Me Not Seated by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Seek Me Not Seated that begins with:

Seek me not,
Seated defeated in darkened valleys....

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Rhyme scheme: ABXXcc ABXaXc ABaXXXX ABXacc
Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,7,6,
Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 111 1001001010 10010101001 10101 111011110110 10110111101 111 1001001010 110111110 01101110101 11011111 11010110011011 111 1001001010 10111101101 1010111111010 1111101001 110100001 1100101110100000 111 1001001010 1100111101 01000111010 11110101111 101110100110111
Amount of stanzas: 4
Average number of symbols per stanza: 241
Average number of words per stanza: 42
Amount of lines: 25
Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; you, i are repeated.
The author used the same word seek at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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Seek Me Not Seated by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

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