This is an analysis of the poem Hoping With Their Fingers Crossed that begins with:

From the very moment they raided the kitchen,
To leave the cupboards and the shelves empty and bare......

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XababXcXcXddcedbeXcccdXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 001010110010 010101011011 1110010 010100100101 11111 111111100 111101001111 1001101 1110101111000101 1011010101 1011101111110 01000110010101000101 0011011100 100101000010100 010110100 110100101 10111111000100 0100110110100110011 1111100101100011 100110 010111001001101 101 1110100110101 101011011010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1147
  • Average number of words per stanza: 191
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • 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; and, of are repeated.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of Hoping With Their Fingers Crossed;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!

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