Poem Analysis of To Give Tomorrow Less Reason To Exist by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem To Give Tomorrow Less Reason To Exist that begins with:

So gone but with a going on,
Are those yesterdays living......

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Rhyme scheme: ABCD EACF GAXac ABCD EACF GAX GAX Xg
Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,5,4,4,3,3,2,
Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 11100101 1110110 0111 01111 1011 1010101 11101010 1000101 10011110001 111011 11110101000 110001101 01111101 11100101 1110110 0111 01111 1011 1010101 11101010 1000101 10011110001 111011 111000 10011110001 111011 111000 11101111000 01011110001
Amount of stanzas: 8
Average number of symbols per stanza: 103
Average number of words per stanza: 18
Amount of lines: 29
Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; on is repeated.
The author used the same word giving 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 unresisted is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word unresisted at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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