A Scientific Approach to Poetry

I've always had trouble finding meaning in literature because it seems so abstract to me. I understand what the words themselves mean but I can't draw conclusions and connections from what's given to me. Yesterday, while reading Adam Zagajewski's "Try to Praise the Mutilated World", I discovered that some poetry can be dissected (or "disentangled" as our Yoda of literature likes to say) in a scientific manner and analyzed that way very effectively to find possibly an even deeper meaning than just puzzling out what metaphors are embedded in the work. For example, "Try to Praise the Mutilated World" has four sections that start with these words: "Try to praise the mutilated world", "You must praise the mutilated world", "You should praise the mutilated world", and "Praise the mutilated world". This poem consists of good and bad memories, such as "Remember June's long days,/and wild strawberries, drops of wine, the dew" and "You've seen the refugees heading nowhere,/you've heard the executioners sing joyfully". Each section has a different number of lines containing good memories and bad. I think the word choice preceding "mutilated world" corresponds to the number of good and bad things mentioned in the poem-- the section that says "You must praise the mutilated world" contains 2 good lines and 3 bad lines, meaning that when more things go wrong than right, to stay sane you must remember what's good. I was excited for having stumbled upon this new method. I think a numerical, scientific-type analysis will help me understand literature a lot better than I have in the past. I'm looking forward to applying this throughout the year if I can.
--Little Red