Poem Analysis of That's Rude by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem That's Rude that begins with:

I am not the one to call you names.
However......

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Rhyme scheme: aXa XbcX dacX XX edXXXe XX efgh XfX fiffffc X gXihXhh bhf ghX
Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,4,4,2,6,2,4,3,7,1,7,3,3,
Closest metre: iambic trimeter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 111010111 110 110100110010 10 001010 11 11011 111111 110110110 1111010 00100011000 1 10 11111001 110101011101 111011 1111000010 100 00111011100 11 11 11110101 1101 111101 11111 1 1 11111 1010101001 1 110110101 11101 011101110 10111 1110000 111110111110 1 11111 0111101110 11110111 111110010 110101 1011 110 1011 111110 1 1110111101 110
Amount of stanzas: 13
Average number of symbols per stanza: 92
Average number of words per stanza: 18
Amount of lines: 49
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:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, and, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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That's Rude by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

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