Poem Analysis of Without A Drumroll Or A Cheering Audience by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Without A Drumroll Or A Cheering Audience that begins with:

I was still in my early twenties,
When I felt I had earned my doctorate's degree....

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Rhyme scheme: ABcXcd daXedX ABefgfX hgXhXXae
Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,7,8,
Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 111011010 1111111100001 10111010010101 11010011100 111000100 110001001011 1011011 1111010100 110011110101 11010100010 00101000101101 111010100000 111011010 1111111100001 1001101010100 1111101101 001001010100 111001 1110100010 11100111110001 010 0100111101011 101011101 0101010101000010 011001101111 010101001101101 010001000111011
Amount of stanzas: 4
Average number of symbols per stanza: 283
Average number of words per stanza: 49
Amount of lines: 27
Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, my, had 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 i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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