Poem Analysis of Those Sexual Innuendos by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Those Sexual Innuendos that begins with:

Innocence has blown up in a puff!
Those, ...

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Rhyme scheme: X aABCD ABEDF aABCD ABEB BG ABEB BG aABCD ABEDFXABABABaAB
Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,5,5,5,4,2,4,2,5,15,
Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 100111001 1 1000010 1111 1110101 0010101 111000010 1111 11101010 110100101 10101010101 1 1000010 1111 1110101 0010101 11000010 1111 1101010 001011 1101 1101010 11000010 1111 1101010 001011 1101 1101010 1 1000010 1111 1110101 0010101 111000010 1111 11101010 110100101 10101010101 111000010 1111 111000010 1111 111000010 1111 1 1000010 1111
Amount of stanzas: 11
Average number of symbols per stanza: 108
Average number of words per stanza: 19
Amount of lines: 47
Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
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; to is repeated.
The author used the same words those, all at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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Those Sexual Innuendos by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

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