Up And Down With It by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Up And Down With It that begins with:

Up and down with it,
A hold on love....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AbAcadbAEAaAAeAfAfAaAdg AEAaAAg AgAgAaX hAIhAIhAIc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 23,7,7,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11100 0111 11100 01001 101000 1001 0101000101 11100 1100 11100 0010001 11100 10101 001011111 11100 010 11100 1010 11100 01001 11100 0010110101 001100101 11100 1100 11100 001101 11100 10101 011011101 11100 0111 11100 0111 11100 01110101 1110100111 1 11100 01 1 11100 01 1 11100 01 1001
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 253
  • Average number of words per stanza: 53
  • Amount of lines: 47
  • Average number of symbols per line: 21 (very short strings)
  • 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; it, to, and are repeated.

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

    The poet repeated the same word grow at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of Up And Down With It;
  • central theme;
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