Take It Back. From The Past by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Take It Back. From The Past that begins with:

Take it back.
From the past....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ABcd ABdd Efgg hhfbfb AXXEXXfd ABXfc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,6,8,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101 001 10111101 110011111 101 001 101011010 11111111 1011010111101 11001000001 11001010101101 111010000010101 101111101 11001010011 0101011111 111110100010001 1011110101001 110101100 101 11101011 1010011010101 1011010111101 1111010001010001 01111110100 101101110111010 1011001110001 101 001 10110110 1010011 10110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 198
  • Average number of words per stanza: 36
  • Amount of lines: 31
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; to is repeated.

    The author used the same words take, people at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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