Poem Analysis of If You Bake It by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem If You Bake It that begins with:

If you bake it...
So hard it is to then look for escapes....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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Rhyme scheme: ABA ACA DAAA aBA DAAA ACA AEAEXaEAE
Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,4,3,4,3,9,
Closest metre: iambic trimeter
Сlosest rhyme: couplets
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 0110 1100011101 001 0110 00100010101 1111 101010 1010001 0110 001 10110 1100011101 001 101010 1010001 0110 001 0110 00100010101 1111 0110 010101000110 111010 0110 10110 010101000110 111010 0110
Amount of stanzas: 8
Average number of symbols per stanza: 83
Average number of words per stanza: 17
Amount of lines: 28
Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, to, if are repeated.
The author used the same word if at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same words create, naked 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 it connects the lines.

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If You Bake It by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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