Poem Analysis of Where Are The Keepers? by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Where Are The Keepers? that begins with:

Forgotten are the rules and benefits of love.
Where the keepers? ...

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Rhyme scheme: abBcaBXc aaXXXcdA DdA DdA BAXadadBcB DdA DdAXBAdBcB
Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,3,3,10,3,10,
Closest metre: iambic trimeter
Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 010101110001 1010 01010 1 0100010101001 11010 0111 1001 110111010101 01 110110 10101010 101010 101 1 1011 101010 1 1011 101010 1 1011 10001010 1011 110101110 111 111101 001011 1 11010 1 01010 101010 1 1011 101010 1 1011 10001010 1011 1 11010 1 01010
Amount of stanzas: 8
Average number of symbols per stanza: 113
Average number of words per stanza: 19
Amount of lines: 44
Average number of symbols per line: 20 (very short strings)
Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
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; and is repeated.
The author used the same word everybody 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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