Poem Analysis of The Police Are Called by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem The Police Are Called that begins with:

Some people cause havoc for kicks,
Just to do it and then to run....

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Rhyme scheme: ABbbb cXaca DEFG DEHG gbXa GBGG DEHG DEFG ABbbdEHG DEFGXGBGGgg
Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,4,4,4,4,4,4,8,11,
Closest metre: iambic trimeter
Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 11011011 10101101 11101011 00101101 011001111101 110011101 010011001 1111011 1101101 10110100100 1100111 00100101 101101010 10010101 1100111 00100101 11110101 0101001 11011101 111101111 1111101 111011 11011101 111101 111 001000 1100111 00100101 11110101 0101001 1100111 00100101 101101010 10010101 11011011 10101101 1101011 11 00111 00100101 11110101 0101001 1100111 00100101 101101010 10010101 11011101 111101 111 001000 10101 100
Amount of stanzas: 11
Average number of symbols per stanza: 147
Average number of words per stanza: 28
Amount of lines: 52
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 is repeated.
The author used the same words some, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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The Police Are Called by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

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