Poem Analysis of Some People Can Fall In And Out Of It by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Some People Can Fall In And Out Of It that begins with:

I need more than superstition,
To remove suspicions I have of love....

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Rhyme scheme: AB CDB DdD eXXfdga hifh ABcX CDBdi DdDed faggXdbeXd
Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,3,3,7,4,4,5,5,10,
Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 11111010 0010101101 1110 110101010 110101101011 1101101100 1 1111 1010110110 10001010001101 10010011 10101110100100 1111 01001111 101001001010 0100001001111 01001010100110100 110101100 111011111 11111010 0010101101 1111000010101 0100101110101 1110 110101010 110101101011 0010010010000 11 1101101100 1 1111 11111100001 11010001 11011010 111001111011 10101111101 01110001 11110001101010 1010101111 11 0110111101 1010100111
Amount of stanzas: 10
Average number of symbols per stanza: 150
Average number of words per stanza: 29
Amount of lines: 43
Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; i, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word love at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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