Poem Analysis of There Is Nothing More Durable by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem There Is Nothing More Durable that begins with:

It is refreshing to get that opportunity,
To be placed on a pedestal......

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Rhyme scheme: Xab cdb add bXccXaX
Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,7,
Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: couplets
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 0001001110100 00110100 1011101 00010010 0101001 01101 1101000 011010 0100011001010 0010010001 1110 11001111 1010100 0100 10101100 111000111010
Amount of stanzas: 4
Average number of symbols per stanza: 118
Average number of words per stanza: 20
Amount of lines: 16
Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
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; to is repeated.
The author used the same word it at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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