Poem Analysis of Thoughtdropper by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Thoughtdropper that begins with:

Your drift is Mister Thoughtdropper...
Is to plop a thinking process, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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Rhyme scheme: XXaXa Xbabcb XDEC XDEC XDXXd
Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,6,4,4,5,
Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 11010100 00101011 0111 110100110 11010101 1110101100 0111010101 110100110 111110111 0010011111 1111101 1111100 1001111 110110010 01101 1111100 1001111 110110010 01101 1111100 1001111 1111100 100 1011001111
Amount of stanzas: 5
Average number of symbols per stanza: 162
Average number of words per stanza: 29
Amount of lines: 24
Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
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 word i've at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines thoughtdropper is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word hot at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase thoughtdropper connects the lines.

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Thoughtdropper by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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