Poem Analysis of With A Getting Off Knees by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem With A Getting Off Knees that begins with:

There is hope in the air,
For the ones really caring......

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Rhyme scheme: ABcDef ABcDed Gah BXFeD BXFeD GaH XXfX GaH BXFeD GH I cGH IXcGh
Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,3,5,5,3,4,3,5,2,1,3,5,
Closest metre: iambic trimeter
Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 101001 1011010 1 110111011 1 110100111 101001 1011010 1 110111011 1 1101100101 11101011 1 101 10010011011010 10 11011111 1 110100101 10010011011010 10 11011111 1 110100101 11101011 1 01101 010110111 1110100101 101010001 001010 11101011 1 01101 10010011011010 10 11011111 1 110100101 11101011 111101 001011 1 110011 111101 001011 1 110011 110111
Amount of stanzas: 14
Average number of symbols per stanza: 95
Average number of words per stanza: 18
Amount of lines: 50
Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
Average number of words per line: 5
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; and is repeated.
The author used the same word there at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word up at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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