Spicy With A Little Bit Of Raunch by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Spicy With A Little Bit Of Raunch that begins with:

I am not a rumor.
Nor am I a page from a script, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ABb cXc XXd AdXBdbX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111010 11101001 0101101 1111101010 001101111 0010011 110111011 0010010010100110 11101010110100111 111010 1111111111100 100010101 11101001 1100101100100 101 10111011010
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 137
  • Average number of words per stanza: 29
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.

    The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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