Poem Analysis of Toeing To Toe by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Toeing To Toe that begins with:

Did you leave your cookie cutter,
Near that boiling pot? ...

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Rhyme scheme: ABBB ABCDE fCXgX fCXXh ABBB ABCDE fCXgXFHGFGFHGFGFHG
Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,5,5,4,5,18,
Closest metre: iambic trimeter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 01111010 11101 10111 01110101 01111010 11101 111111 1010111 11 10110 11111 011101 1111101 0101011 10110 11111 111101 111010 01101111 01111010 11101 10111 01110101 01111010 11101 111111 1010111 11 10110 11111 011101 11110101 10110 111001 01 0110 11100101 10110 111001 01 0110 11100101 10110 111001 01
Amount of stanzas: 8
Average number of symbols per stanza: 141
Average number of words per stanza: 27
Amount of lines: 45
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; you is repeated.
The author used the same word did at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word me at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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Toeing To Toe by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

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