Poem Analysis of Remember That Turkey Stuffed by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Remember That Turkey Stuffed that begins with:

Slip me a witch and be done with it.
Then give me a hee-hi-ho! ...

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Rhyme scheme: ABCB XXB DE ABCB XXB DE ad XXBDXe XX
Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,3,2,4,3,2,2,6,2,
Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 110110100 1110111 1110000100 1110101 11111 11111 1111111 11111110010101 1110111101 110110100 1110111 1110000100 1110101 11111 11111 1111111 11111110010101 1110111101 11100101 01 11111 11111 1111111 11111110010101 111011 1101 1 10101000
Amount of stanzas: 9
Average number of symbols per stanza: 97
Average number of words per stanza: 21
Amount of lines: 28
Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
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; me, loo, la, lee are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word may is repeated.

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