Poem Analysis of Up From A Downbeat by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Up From A Downbeat that begins with:

Up from a downbeat.
And cooling off, ...

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Rhyme scheme: AXab Acdef afXa fXXbcfcX AgXgbaXdaae
Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,4,8,11,
Closest metre: iambic trimeter
Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 10001 1101 01101 10101010 10001 111001 111001010 0001001011 1 11010100 10101 111010 11001000 110101 101100101 10100010100 01010 010010100 110111101 010100 0101 10001 0101 1011111 10111001 10010 010100001 111101 1110101010 1110001 110010 0100101
Amount of stanzas: 5
Average number of symbols per stanza: 163
Average number of words per stanza: 28
Amount of lines: 32
Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
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; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same words up, i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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