No Hasty Rush To Love by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem No Hasty Rush To Love that begins with:

Some people know,
What many can't show....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AABC deXX Beced Beef AABC abecefXBeef
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,5,4,4,11,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101 11011 1111 11001 11111 11111 010010 101111 110101 01 010101 010 1010110 110101 01 10100101 01 1101 11011 1111 11001 111 10101 01 101001 01 01 110101 01 1111 1110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 87
  • Average number of words per stanza: 16
  • Amount of lines: 31
  • Average number of symbols per line: 19 (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; know is repeated.

    The author used the same word no at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of No Hasty Rush To Love;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!

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