Analysis of Do It Now Or Wish You Had Forever



Fan the flame or bypass an occasion.
Play the game to finish your equation.

Risk the stand or swallow a dominion.
Beat the band to finish your opinion.

Be the clown or cover up commotion.
Paint the town to finish your devotion.

Ask her out or stay in obscurity.
Dump the doubt to finish your surety.

Bend the rule or become a tag along.
Find the tool to finish your unique song.

Do it now or wish you had forever.
Make the vow to finish your endeavor.


Scheme AA AA AA BB CC DD
Poetic Form Couplet 
Metre 101111010 1011101010 1011100010 1011101010 1011101010 1011101010 1011100100 1011101100 1011010101 1011101011 1111111010 1011101010
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 440
Words 87
Sentences 12
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 59
Words per stanza (avg) 15
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Submitted on February 05, 2010

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Wallace Dean LaBenne

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