Poem Analysis of Not At Your Expense. But Mine by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Not At Your Expense. But Mine that begins with:

That's strange.
And I am glad you brought the subject up....

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Rhyme scheme: XX abcadcebcaXf gchhgdXfcei ceje cgcahifkj chbkbckXb
Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,12,11,4,9,9,
Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 11 1111110011 110101111 1101000101 1000100110 1 010001 11111 01011110101 11010100110110 1010010101 11000100 010010010 111100100001110 101 1111101001010 1110 11000100 000100011 10011010101 100111011 11010101110 001101010 10101 0101000100010 001100010 010100101010 111010110 1100010 100 101101 00 1111101 11001010110 0101000010100 0110111100 01111 01111011101 1 11101 11 11 11111001010 110111101011 11 11110101010000 100101010
Amount of stanzas: 6
Average number of symbols per stanza: 248
Average number of words per stanza: 43
Amount of lines: 47
Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, to, i are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase you connects the lines.

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