Poem Analysis of Slave To Its Dictation by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Slave To Its Dictation that begins with:

Bag of crisp fish and chips!
Some have said that about him.....

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Rhyme scheme: abXcdc Xcade ceffXf dead dccfeXXec XXd cXb cdXXbXXcea
Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,5,6,4,9,3,3,10,
Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 101111 1111011 110110001 11111010 101010001 110 101001 10100010 0101001001 00110101 101001010 010010011010 01110011010 11011101 01110001 011010110 11010010101 01011111 1110111 0111001 101010001 1011 11011000010 11100100010 11110111 101100100 11110 001010110 10101011 01010 111 10110 110100100 1010 1010 10001010 111101101001001010 0100010101010100 10111001011111000 11110101101111 0111001100100101 1001000010110101 11110 110 10
Amount of stanzas: 10
Average number of symbols per stanza: 152
Average number of words per stanza: 28
Amount of lines: 45
Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
Average number of words per line: 6
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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, he, and, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.

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