Poem Analysis of To Have It And To Give by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem To Have It And To Give that begins with:

You need to feel it!
Everyday that special touch of love....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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Rhyme scheme: ABCB ABCB AXbBBCBAB ddeABCBABCf ABCBABCe ABABCBAB aBfeXeABCBABBBABBBABB
Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,9,11,8,8,21,
Closest metre: iambic trimeter
Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 11010 101110101 11101 1011101 11010 101110101 11101 1011101 101010000 101 1101 010101 110101 11101 1011101 1111010 01010101 11 1001 1 11010 101110101 11101 1011101 1111010 01010101 010111 10000101 11010 101110101 11101 1011101 1111010 01010101 010111 10001101 101010000 1011101 01010100 110101 11101 1011101 1111010 01010101 111010 110101 01010011 111001 1011 1 11010 101110101 11101 1011101 101010000 110101 010101 110101 01010100 110101 010101 110101 01010100 110101 010101
Amount of stanzas: 7
Average number of symbols per stanza: 249
Average number of words per stanza: 48
Amount of lines: 65
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:
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; of, it, to are repeated.
The author used the same word you at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word love at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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To Have It And To Give by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

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