Poem Analysis of I Want To Die In My Own Bed by Yehuda Amichai for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem I Want To Die In My Own Bed that begins with:

All night the army came up from Gilgal
To get to the killing field, and that's all....

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Rhyme scheme: XXaAbbaA ccaA XXaA ddaA X
Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,4,4,1,
Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 1101011010 0100101111 001111101 11010111 11001110010 01101111010 111011010111 111010111 01110100101010 0010011010110 11111110101 111010111 100100111 11111111010 011110101 11010111 1111111001 100101011101 111010101001 111010111 01000101100110010
Amount of stanzas: 5
Average number of symbols per stanza: 177
Average number of words per stanza: 37
Amount of lines: 22
Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word bed at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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