Poem Analysis of You Broke Their 'Image' Rule! by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem You Broke Their 'Image' Rule! that begins with:

Twice you've paid it.
That price....

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Rhyme scheme: ABBACcDB ABBAcaca cccc cccc ABBACcDB eAFFGF AFFGF AFFGFXABeAFFGFggg
Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,4,4,8,6,5,17,
Closest metre: iambic trimeter
Сlosest rhyme: couplets
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 1110 11 001 101 1010110 010 11001 1111 1110 11 001 101 101010 1111 11010 010101 1101111010 1110011 1101111010 1010111 10010 00101 10101110 111111 1110 11 001 101 1010110 010 11001 1111 1 01010101 0101 100111 110011 110111 01010101 0101 100111 110011 110111 01010101 0101 100111 110011 110111 1110 11 1 01010101 0101 100111 110011 110111 1111001 1101011 11
Amount of stanzas: 9
Average number of symbols per stanza: 153
Average number of words per stanza: 26
Amount of lines: 59
Average number of symbols per line: 22 (very short strings)
Average number of words per line: 4
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; they is repeated.
The author used the same words twice, divided at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word fools at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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