Poem Analysis of Hired As A Tax Collector by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Hired As A Tax Collector that begins with:

What classifies him to be qualified?
He knows nothing about the Irish jig....

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Rhyme scheme: aX X ab X c dX d X cb XX XX aXXdbX
Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,1,2,1,1,2,1,1,2,2,2,6,
Closest metre: iambic trimeter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 1101100101 1110010101 1011 011011010 00101 10111 010110100 11 0010 1110101010 111001010 1 11010100 1 11011 1 111111011 1110011011 1010101010 11111 111101001 1110100101 11110010010101
Amount of stanzas: 12
Average number of symbols per stanza: 52
Average number of words per stanza: 10
Amount of lines: 23
Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.

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Hired As A Tax Collector by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

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