Poem Analysis of With A Few Less Crosses To Bear by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem With A Few Less Crosses To Bear that begins with:

Let it be known...
A true freedom received, ...

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Rhyme scheme: AbcdXaee Adaabefe edeegegb X hi X ighjfj XX jXffX XkX cXlklkja
Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,1,2,1,6,2,5,3,8,
Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 1001 011001 11011101 1010110 001100010010 111000101 10010010 110010101001 1001 111110 001001010 1011001001 0010010000111 010111101001 101010111011 110100101001 010101100101001 10100100110 10101010101000100 110101 110101111 101101101 1101011001101 010000100011010 11111111 1110 101010010 111011101000 11010 0110100101 11010100010 0110101101 1111110 10101011001 10 11111 01001 101001 0111001111 1101100 1101011 1 011 1111 101 11010111 00111001 11111 101101 1 110111 1111100100101
Amount of stanzas: 11
Average number of symbols per stanza: 155
Average number of words per stanza: 29
Amount of lines: 52
Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, it, and, with, 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 let at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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