Poem Analysis of There Ain'T Nothing In My Life Like That by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem There Ain'T Nothing In My Life Like That that begins with:

I've heard that I am fine.
Perhaps that's why I dine alone......

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Rhyme scheme: aab Xcd bXeeXf fgXgXh haXabgdc gX
Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,6,6,8,2,
Closest metre: iambic trimeter
Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 111111 01111101 11 01110010 11001010 101110011 10111001 1 1110110000101 10101110 010101000 11 11110101 0110001 11110100010111 11001001 1011111 011101 11111 1101 10111 01 11010 1111110 011101010 111 111001111 110110101010
Amount of stanzas: 6
Average number of symbols per stanza: 132
Average number of words per stanza: 25
Amount of lines: 28
Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
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.

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There Ain'T Nothing In My Life Like That by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

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