Once She Takes Them Away And Leaves by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Once She Takes Them Away And Leaves that begins with:

Does anyone find it mysterious and strange,
That when Mother Nature pays a surprise visit......

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AbccXccdXADcdADbc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110010010011 111010100110 10101111 11100110 101011 11010001 11000110101 1011110001100 110010010011 11010111 10010101 01111010101 110010010011 11010111 110110101 11100111
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 322
  • Average number of words per stanza: 52
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; and is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word or is repeated.

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

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