Poem Analysis of Proxy Up Your Posse by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Proxy Up Your Posse that begins with:

Proxy up your posse,
I could care less what you say....

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Rhyme scheme: Abab cadc AefX dghfg abhfg AgdfF hFhFhF bfh BGDF BGE BGDF BGE XidJkXgidJkAbi
Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,5,5,5,6,3,4,3,4,3,14,
Closest metre: iambic trimeter
Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 101110 1111111 1101010 01011 110111 00110110 1111010 01111 101110 110111 111101011 1001 111101010 110101 101111111 110 101 11110 01011 01010111 10010111 110011 101110 0010101 1 0110111 1001101 101 1001101 101 1001101 101 1001101 10111011 1 1001101 1101 011011 01110 111 1101 011011 11011 1101 011011 01110 111 1101 011011 11011 110101 1 1 101 10 110101 1 1 101 10 101110 11101011 01
Amount of stanzas: 14
Average number of symbols per stanza: 100
Average number of words per stanza: 18
Amount of lines: 63
Average number of symbols per line: 22 (very short strings)
Average number of words per line: 4
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 author used the same words proxy, don't, take at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word dumped at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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Proxy Up Your Posse by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

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