Poem Analysis of Without One 'If' Wished by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Without One 'If' Wished that begins with:

I understood what it was and wasn't.
Without one 'if' wished....

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Rhyme scheme: aaXXaaabXa XXacabab X XaXa X XXc
Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,8,1,4,1,3,
Closest metre: iambic trimeter
Сlosest rhyme: limerick
Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 1101101110 01111 10110101010 1110011001 1001100110 1 1011011010 11001001100 11110 11100100 1110 1100101001 00101 0101111000011 111011110101010 001110110100100 001011011 1010 11110010111 1 110101 01110110011 100 1110 111 011010111 01
Amount of stanzas: 6
Average number of symbols per stanza: 137
Average number of words per stanza: 27
Amount of lines: 27
Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
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; it, what are repeated.

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