Poem Analysis of To Get What It Was To Do Done by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem To Get What It Was To Do Done that begins with:

It has been a long time since I had been a child.
Such a long time, ...

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Rhyme scheme: aXbcaa deae feggfchcXhgXg gXficbddiig gfdXbaXaaag
Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,4,13,11,11,
Closest metre: iambic trimeter
Сlosest rhyme: rima
Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 010011111001 1011 110101 010101011111 11010111010010 10111010 101111 0100111 111101 11011 11111010 1101111 11 0100001 1101010 111 011011 0111 01010 1111 111100 11011 110111 0110011010111 111000100 10101001110 11 111001 11111 1101011 11101 1010111 0011001 11010 1 11010100 0011101 100 110101101011 1010101111 01010011101001 1011100011 1101100010101 1 101001100
Amount of stanzas: 5
Average number of symbols per stanza: 255
Average number of words per stanza: 50
Amount of lines: 45
Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
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; i, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word it at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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