Poem Analysis of This I Feel, Breathe And See by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem This I Feel, Breathe And See that begins with:

Who is there unaware and in doubt,
That I live to be attached to You? ...

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Rhyme scheme: ABXc DBEACFC E Aabag caacX hhXXXhg AB DBEACFC EiXXiceX
Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,7,1,5,5,7,2,7,8,
Closest metre: iambic pentameter
Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: blank verse
Metre: 101101101 111000101 110010001111 11111010101 010111 1011101 01011010001 0100100011001 1111010 1101111111 1010111101 011111 101101101 1001111001 101010101 100101010 1001011101 110010 00101010101 110100010001 111100110101 0111010010 11101 01010010111 0111000101100 1001000 1100101110101 0010001 0010011 101101101 111000101 010111 1011101 01011010001 0100100011001 1111010 1101111111 1010111101 011111 01010100100 11011001 11100010 11111010 01001110 00100011011 011101
Amount of stanzas: 9
Average number of symbols per stanza: 185
Average number of words per stanza: 34
Amount of lines: 46
Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, i, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.

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