Poem Analysis of There Is Something Within Us That Refuses Change by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem There Is Something Within Us That Refuses Change that begins with:

So many lifetimes I have lived,
Among some who have just lived one....

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Rhyme scheme: ABCDD EFG ABCDD hhXcc EFG IDIDIDed
Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,3,5,5,3,8,
Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 11011111 01111111 01000111010 110101111 101101101 0010000111011010 101001101 1110011110110 11011111 01111111 01000111010 110101111 101101101 111001011001 11110011011101 10101011010111 10100111010111100 1110010100110101110100 0010000111011010 101001101 1110011110110 101001110101 1110111 101001110101 1110111 101001110101 1110111 10 111
Amount of stanzas: 6
Average number of symbols per stanza: 208
Average number of words per stanza: 37
Amount of lines: 29
Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; have, i, to, that, change are repeated.

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