Poem Analysis of Take The Lid Off The Pot by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Take The Lid Off The Pot that begins with:

Just take the lid off the pot
Savor all the flavor...

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Rhyme scheme: aBABABAA Xcdaefa ABABABAA gceXa abABaBAA X a fX dagaeaX
Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,7,8,5,8,1,1,2,7,
Closest metre: iambic trimeter
Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 1101101 101010 101101 101010 101101 1101010 101001 01111111 001010 0010100 111001 0010101 1110001 1010101110 01010111 101101 101010 101101 101010 101101 1101010 101001 01111111 010001 01011101 010001 111111 0010100 1111101 0101010 101101 101010 111101 1101010 101001 01111111 10101 111 11110 11111 01 100 1 1110011 1101110 110111 1011001
Amount of stanzas: 9
Average number of symbols per stanza: 131
Average number of words per stanza: 27
Amount of lines: 47
Average number of symbols per line: 24 (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; pot is repeated.

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