Poem Analysis of That Plant You'Ve Got Needs A Bigger Pot by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem That Plant You'Ve Got Needs A Bigger Pot that begins with:

That plant you've got needs a bigger pot.
It's getting very big and branches out....

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Rhyme scheme: AAA B AAA B CX AAA B CX AAAAAA CX AAA B AAAA CX AAAA B AAA B CXXAAAA
Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,1,3,1,2,3,1,2,6,2,3,1,4,2,4,1,3,1,7,
Closest metre: iambic trimeter
Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 111110101 0101011101 010100101 110101 111110101 0101011101 010100101 110101 111 1101111 111110101 0101011101 010100101 110101 111 1101111 1000101 01011 1000101 01011 1000101 01011 111 1101111 111110101 0101011101 010100101 110101 1000101 01011 1000101 01011 111 1101111 1000101 01011 1000101 01011 110101 111110101 0101011101 010100101 110101 111 1101111 111110101 111110101 111110101 111110101
Amount of stanzas: 20
Average number of symbols per stanza: 75
Average number of words per stanza: 15
Amount of lines: 49
Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, plant, that, you've, got, needs, bigger, pot are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words it's, that are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines pot is repeated).

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