Poem Analysis of Show Me What You've Got by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Show Me What You've Got that begins with:

Show me what you've got,
That has updated your game....

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Rhyme scheme: ABCdADEdABD CXbCafada AAAAAA ABCdADEdABD AAAAAAGFHGAXAAAAAAGFHGA
Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,9,6,11,23,
Closest metre: iambic trimeter
Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 11111 1101011 01 1 11111 1100101 01 1 11111 1101011 0101 1111 1010101101 011 1111 1010101011 101 010101 1 10101 11111 10000110110 111 11111 10000110110 111 11111 1101011 01 1 11111 1100101 01 1 11111 1101011 0101 11111 10000110110 111 11111 10000110110 111 1101 01 10101000001 0101 0111010 11111 10000110110 111 11111 10000110110 111 1101 01 10101000001 0101 0111010
Amount of stanzas: 6
Average number of symbols per stanza: 230
Average number of words per stanza: 43
Amount of lines: 59
Average number of symbols per line: 22 (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; show, what, you've, got, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
The author used the same word show 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 got is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word it at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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