Poem Analysis of These Days Are Very Different by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem These Days Are Very Different that begins with:

These days are very different,
Than days long gone and passed....

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Rhyme scheme: AAbb AAca adcX Aefe XXaaX AAEGFEAAEXaffcXAAEGFdbAAAAAA
Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,5,28,
Closest metre: iambic trimeter
Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 11110100 111111 010101 110111 11110100 111111 011111 10111 11111100 111101 011001 0101010 11110100 110101 01101100 010111 11010101110 11110 111101010101 111111 011111100110 111100 11110100 11 10110 011111 11 111100 11110100 11 101101 110001 1111010 0101010 10100100 111100 11110100 11 10110 011111 11010101 0101111 111100 11110100 001 111100 11110100 001
Amount of stanzas: 7
Average number of symbols per stanza: 183
Average number of words per stanza: 33
Amount of lines: 48
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; message, sent are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word these is repeated.
The author used the same word these 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 different is repeated).

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