Poem Analysis of There Is No Balance On A See-Saw by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem There Is No Balance On A See-Saw that begins with:

It's hard to balance on a see-saw.
When one goes up......

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Rhyme scheme: abccXb ADeE XXXXXcfaff ADAA ADAAXADEE
Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,4,10,4,9,
Closest metre: iambic trimeter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 010101011 1111 11101 1 1101 111011 101101011 111 100111 1001111 1011110100 1111 101111010 111010 11111101 1111101 001001001 111011 01001 11 101101011 111 11110101 11110101 101101011 111 11110101 11110101 101101011 111 1001111 1001111
Amount of stanzas: 6
Average number of symbols per stanza: 140
Average number of words per stanza: 29
Amount of lines: 32
Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; see, saw are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words even, one are repeated.
The author used the same word there at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines off, saw are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word saw at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase there connects the lines.

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