This is an analysis of the poem And Nothing Is Ever As You Want It To Be that begins with:

You lose your love for her and then
It is her who is lost,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbc debd dXeeb bbddXd dXbdXcaecc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,5,6,10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111011 000101 11001111 110010101111000 001010101 0110101011000101 011111 10101111001 1101 0110011 01111 101011 1100010001 11111011000101 1110111 101110101 1101110010 111010110 010110010 11 111011 101111 111001 110010 01101110110 11001110 110010 110010101111000
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 159
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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, it, you, be are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, you are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines lost, be are repeated).

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  • summary of And Nothing Is Ever As You Want It To Be;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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