Once I have written an initial poetic sketch, I find it useful to reduce each stanza to a straightforward line. This provides a concrete reference point for the content of the verses and keeps the theme of the poem in focus. When “A Rhebok!” is considered in this way, the two stanzas bluntly abstract to: I saw an antelope—and it ran away!
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