Poem Analysis of Sneaky With The Looks by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Sneaky With The Looks that begins with:

Sneaky with the looks that they give.
I perceive myself alone....

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Rhyme scheme: A bcXXcddXdd A ee A edXee A efghXci gfdXhj A fkjXg cAEg cAEDK AII ABA II ABA II AEDK ABAXIIcA
Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,10,1,2,1,5,1,7,6,1,5,4,5,3,3,2,3,2,4,8,
Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 10001111 1011101 11010100010 111111 00101000010011 11101 10010111 11010100100 011011 0010100 1010010010110 10001111 110101 01010110 10001111 1010101001 01001010 00111101 11110101 10010101 10001111 11001110100 11 11010 111011 0111101101 1001 11010110 11101010 10111 11101 0111 0111111 1101 10001111 111 11111 100100101 010 10 1 10001111 1101 011010 1 10001111 1101 101110 10100100 10001111 0101010 10101010 10001111 00101010100010 1110001111 0101010 10101010 10001111 00101010100010 1110001111 0101010 10101010 10001111 1101 101110 10100100 10001111 00101010100010 1110001111 0101010 10101010 1 10001111
Amount of stanzas: 21
Average number of symbols per stanza: 100
Average number of words per stanza: 18
Amount of lines: 73
Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, to, with, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same words and, sneaky at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word give at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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