Poem Analysis of You'Ve Been Watched by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem You'Ve Been Watched that begins with:

You've been watched.
No matter what you think you have, ...

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Rhyme scheme: ABAA ABAA bAXAca ABAA AbaA DAAACC ABAA ABAe DAAACCdd AFAe AFAeXAFAeeA
Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,6,4,4,6,4,4,8,4,11,
Closest metre: iambic trimeter
Сlosest rhyme: couplets
Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 101 11011111 1101 10101 101 11011111 1101 10101 0101101 10101 1100011 10101 010101 10101 101 11011111 1101 10101 101 1101111 1111 10101 11101000 10101 110110110 10101 1010111 1111111 101 11011111 1101 10101 101 11011111 1101 1110111 11101000 10101 110110110 10101 1010111 1111111 10111010 110111010 101 0101 11101 11 101 0101 11101 11 101 0101 11101 11 11 101
Amount of stanzas: 12
Average number of symbols per stanza: 118
Average number of words per stanza: 21
Amount of lines: 58
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:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words you've, nonstop are repeated.
The author used the same word you've at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase nonstop connects the lines.

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