Poem Analysis of The Final Tax by Ellis Parker Butler for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem The Final Tax that begins with:

Said Statesman A to Statesman Z:
'What can we tax that is not paying?... full text

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Rhyme scheme: AbbX cdcd cdcd cdcd cdcd cece cbcX AXXX XdXd
Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
Closest metre: iambic trimeter
Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 11000101 111110110 01010011 1011101100 101111 11111 1111 11111 101101 111010 1111 111010 101101 11101 1111 11101 1111 11111 11101 11101 1111 11101 1111 11111 1111 11101 1111 111000 11000101 100101010 11111001 1010111010 11010100 110011010 00111101 100101110
Amount of stanzas: 9
Average number of symbols per stanza: 102
Average number of words per stanza: 20
Amount of lines: 36
Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; tax is repeated.
The author used the same word said at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase tax connects the lines.

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The Final Tax by Ellis Parker Butler: poem analysis

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