Poem Analysis of Ode To The Book by Pablo Neruda for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Ode To The Book that begins with:

When I close a book
I open life....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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Rhyme scheme: abcdXXeXfdgXddhigjc jkldXfgXiX mnXhemddjdbXeeoliaidmlokdieddndnkgldhdebbejkgfj
Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,10,47,
Closest metre: iambic trimeter
Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 11101 1101 11 1001 0110 1010 1111 01000 11 01010 110 101 100101 011 0110 0101 100111 01110 1001010001 0101010 01 11 10101 1110100 110101 00100010 10111 111111 01101000 111010 011010 0111 00100 010001 111010 0111 1110101010 001100011 0101010 10111 1101000 110100 1 101011 111 11 0101 011 1110010 010100 11001 1111 1111 010 1111 00101 110 111010 1010 010100 11110 1111 10111 0111 01011 100100 111011 01010001 11011 0101 11100101 11111101 011111 010010011 11000 110111011
Amount of stanzas: 3
Average number of symbols per stanza: 519
Average number of words per stanza: 98
Amount of lines: 76
Average number of symbols per line: 20 (very short strings)
Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, me, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, the, and, to, with, books, when are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines poems is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase books connects the lines.

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Ode To The Book by Pablo Neruda: poem analysis

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