Poem Analysis of To Be Somebody's Hero by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem To Be Somebody's Hero that begins with:

It is never ever easy,
To be somebody's hero....

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Rhyme scheme: ABCDE ABCFG hehe gXa FCHCHCI FCHCHCI ABCFG ABCDE FCHCHCIX FCHCHCIgX
Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,4,3,7,7,5,5,8,9,
Closest metre: iambic trimeter
Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 00101010 0011010 1111 0010001 1010111 00101010 0011010 1111 011101 10101101 1110100 1011100 11110001 0111001 1 011100 01000 11001 111 00110 111 0011010 111 111101 11001 111 00110 111 0011010 111 111101 00101010 0011010 1111 011101 10101101 00101010 0011010 1111 0010001 1010111 11001 111 00110 111 0011010 111 111101 1 11001 111 00110 111 0011010 111 111101 1 1111110
Amount of stanzas: 10
Average number of symbols per stanza: 117
Average number of words per stanza: 24
Amount of lines: 58
Average number of symbols per line: 19 (very short strings)
Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; no, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word no is repeated.
The author used the same words it, no at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word deep at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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To Be Somebody's Hero by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

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