Poem Analysis of Will You Sit In Silence by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Will You Sit In Silence that begins with:

Can you sit in quiet before the fire starts.
Will you sit in silence, ...

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Rhyme scheme: AABAAB CDCdEA CDCdEA aABEACEA AABeACEAC dFGHDdFGHDEA ABHh ABHh ABHhXABHh
Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,8,9,12,4,4,9,
Closest metre: iambic trimeter
Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 111010010101 011010 0101 111010010101 011010 0101 101 10101 101 010111 11 0101 101 10101 101 010111 11 0101 1111010010101 011010 1101 11 0101 101 11 0101 111010010101 011010 1101 01 0101 101 11 0101 101 1 100 011 1101 0101 1 100 011 1101 0101 11 0101 011010 0101 1001 01 111010 0101 1001 01 011010 0101 1001 01 111010 0101 1001 01
Amount of stanzas: 10
Average number of symbols per stanza: 120
Average number of words per stanza: 23
Amount of lines: 63
Average number of symbols per line: 18 (very short strings)
Average number of words per line: 4
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; you, sit, in, before are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word breathe at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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