I Like To Get It Before It's Gone by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem I Like To Get It Before It's Gone that begins with:

In the midst of the budding of a birthing Spring.
I stood at the edge of a forest green....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ABXX CABX ABb BBD BBD CABXA BBD BBDdee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,3,5,3,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0010010001001 1110100101 1101011 11010 10111 10101 1100111 010101001 0010010001001 1110100101 11011010 110110111 1011101 110111101 110100101 010101 1010001101 10111 10101 1100111 010101001 0010010001001 110110111 1011101 110111101 110100101 010101 1010001101 1101 111 100
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 126
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 31
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.

    The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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