Poem Analysis of To Understand What It Is You Don'T by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem To Understand What It Is You Don'T that begins with:

I am not going to understand,
What it is you don't....

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Rhyme scheme: ABB Xcdecfgad ABB ahceggfa adiiige hJaJaea ABBeiiXgbXc ABBXbBdgbXABBfa
Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,9,3,8,7,7,11,15,
Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 111100101 10011 101001 1010111111 00100011101 00100010010 1010101101 110100 010110101 11100010111 11100110001 011011101010 111100101 10011 101001 11110101101 001001 1111011001 1111011001 1110011 111001001110 101010101 11101011101 111110010101 10011100 0010001010101 101011010010 0111101001 11110010100 01100110111111 11001000101 1101111 111010101 1101111 01000100110101 11011101 1111111101 111100101 10011 101001 111 111001101010 010111110 101111111001 111100101 0110111 11110101111 1101111000 111100101 10011 101001 110110100010 11 101001 1111110111 11011010110 1110111001 111100101 10011 101001 111110011 00101
Amount of stanzas: 9
Average number of symbols per stanza: 246
Average number of words per stanza: 47
Amount of lines: 62
Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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 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 i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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