This is an analysis of the poem Because That's What I'M Wanting that begins with:
You can't have me,
If you can't......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCDABCXEF b ABCdABCdEF XggXhhXfhaacc aBCDABCXEFdEFbEF ABCDABCdABCdEFXbEF
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,1,10,13,16,18,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111 011 11 101010 11111 011 11 110111010 0111010 11010101 011110 1111 011 11 01111010 1111 011 11 11111010 0111010 11010101 11110100 101 0101010101 1 111010001110100 101111010 1 1011 1101 101011 110110 10111101 001 10111 011 11 101010 11111 011 11 10111010 0111010 11010101 101100110 0111010 11010101 110101110 0111010 11010101 1111 011 11 101010 11111 011 11 11101010 11111 011 11 11110010 0111010 11010101 110001111101 0111010 11010101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 234
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 67
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; baby, you, we are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word for at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Because That's What I'M Wanting;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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