Poem Analysis of Now You Want To Bust 'My' Bubble by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Now You Want To Bust 'My' Bubble that begins with:

Don't trouble me with your own needs.
Don't trouble me with that you see....

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Rhyme scheme: ABCAD ABCAD EDEDEDDFD EDEDEDDFD ABCAD EDEDEDDFD BABDBGHXBABDBGH
Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,9,9,5,9,15,
Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 11010111 11010111 11010101 11110 11101110 11010111 11010111 11010101 11110 11101110 111010 11101110 111010 11101110 111010 11101110 00101010 111110101 111001110 111010 11101110 111010 11101110 111010 11101110 00101010 111110101 111001110 11010111 11010111 11010101 11110 11101110 111010 11101110 111010 11101110 111010 11101110 00101010 111110101 111001110 111 110101010 111 110111010 111 1111 11110110110 111 110101010 111 110111010 111 1111 11110110110
Amount of stanzas: 8
Average number of symbols per stanza: 211
Average number of words per stanza: 41
Amount of lines: 56
Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; trouble, me, with, your, you, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word don't is repeated.
The author used the same words don't, you, no at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same words bubble, rubble, it at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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Now You Want To Bust 'My' Bubble by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

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