Poem Analysis of No Picnic Are Your Pity Pits by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem No Picnic Are Your Pity Pits that begins with:

Why can't you give up pity,
That you count on....

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Rhyme scheme: ABCBABCBbb cDEFbB cDEFBb GEGE GEGE cDEFABCBAB GEGEGE GEcDEFgEGE fHIHEH fHIHEH GEGEXGEGE
Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,6,6,4,4,10,6,10,6,6,9,
Closest metre: iambic trimeter
Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 1111110 1111 0101111 1111 1111110 1111 0101111 1111 111 1111 1 1101 010 11 1010101101001 1110101101001 1 1101 010 11 1110101101001 1110101101001 111 11101 1111 11101 111 11101 1111 11101 1 1101 010 11 1111110 1111 0101111 1111 1111110 1111 1111 11101 111 11101 1111 11101 111 11101 11 1101 010 11 1111 11101 1111 11101 1001 1100101 10110 1100101 110001 1001000 11001 1100101 10110 1100101 110001 1001000 111 11101 1111 11101 111 11101 1111 11101
Amount of stanzas: 12
Average number of symbols per stanza: 125
Average number of words per stanza: 24
Amount of lines: 76
Average number of symbols per line: 19 (very short strings)
Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, that, pity, pits, no are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words that, and are repeated.
The author used the same words i, no at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines on, begin are repeated).
The poet repeated the same words begin, pits, it at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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