Poem Analysis of This Makes Me Hot by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem This Makes Me Hot that begins with:

When we are together,
And our eyes focus......

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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Rhyme scheme: ABCD eXffXD dbXXXgD bgdagD ABCD bdbbdbbbedXfdbdcd
Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,6,7,6,4,17,
Closest metre: iambic trimeter
Сlosest rhyme: couplets
Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 111010 11110 10111 0111 11111 101011 11111 110011 1110101 0111 10100001 0110001001 11011 111 0111 1 0111 1111011 011011 111001101010 0101001010 1111101 0111 111010 11110 10111 0111 00100010100 001011001 1010100 1111 1111111 10 101 011011111 0111 01111100 010001111 101 01001101 111111 11001 10101
Amount of stanzas: 7
Average number of symbols per stanza: 152
Average number of words per stanza: 29
Amount of lines: 44
Average number of symbols per line: 23 (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; and is repeated.
The author used the same word when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word hot at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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This Makes Me Hot by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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