Poem Analysis of There Are Arms That Tick Tock On My Clock by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem There Are Arms That Tick Tock On My Clock that begins with:

I'm not blocking out your knock on my door,
No more, ...

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Rhyme scheme: AAbAb CAbAb DEFG hAbAb haDEFg AAbAb CAbAb DEFg DEFGXG
Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,4,5,6,5,5,4,6,
Closest metre: iambic trimeter
Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 0110111111 11 1 11 1 11111111 11 1 11 1 1101010 101001001 101 111111111 11000101010100 11 1 11 1 111010101010101 11111 1101010 101001001 101 11111111 0110111111 11 1 11 1 11111111 11 1 11 1 1101010 101001001 101 111111111 1101010 101001001 101 111111111 111111111
Amount of stanzas: 10
Average number of symbols per stanza: 94
Average number of words per stanza: 19
Amount of lines: 44
Average number of symbols per line: 21 (very short strings)
Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; no is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words no, i've, there are repeated.
The author used the same word i've at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase no connects the lines.

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