Poem Analysis of When And Where Did They Leave Behind Their Minds by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem When And Where Did They Leave Behind Their Minds that begins with:

I have been blessed to be in the presence...
Of those obsessed with the purchasing of things....

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Rhyme scheme: abacde a fabcbe GXGeGXfe aaeXhhibadee bcXaeeiaae hfhX
Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,1,6,8,12,10,4,
Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 1101000010 01010010001 0111101 1100101 111011111 01111100 111011100 10011 11101100100 10111101001 11011 010 0100010 111011111011 00101111 111011111011 001001101 111011111011 01111000 01011101 1010111 111 1010111 011011010001 1101 111 110100110001 100010 1110110111 1110110 110111 1101101 101101 01001101001001010 0100100 10110100 01010010010 01110101 101010111001 1110 01010 100 011 1 111 1101101 1110
Amount of stanzas: 7
Average number of symbols per stanza: 215
Average number of words per stanza: 39
Amount of lines: 47
Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
Average number of words per line: 6
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; i, have, of, my, and, purpose are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words it, and are repeated.

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