Wiggle That Jiggles On A Back Stacked by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Wiggle That Jiggles On A Back Stacked that begins with:

Sitting back chatting,
And rapping about their six packs....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ABcCa XDCC EaXcd Edd ABXDCC
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,5,3,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10110 11001111 101011 11011 01110110 10101 101101011 1101011 11011 0101 110010 0101 101 111111 0101 10111 1001 10110 11001111 00100101 101101011 1101011 11011
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 122
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 23
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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; boom is repeated.

    The author used the same word in 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 boom is repeated).

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