This is an analysis of the poem I Am Wishing For Something Other Than This that begins with:
Because I made decisions,
To release and free myself of tensions....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AAX aXXa AAbcb cXbd Xdbabba eXeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,4,5,4,7,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111010 0011111010 11011111010 111110100111 11111101110 1111101101 110 0111010 0011111010 01011 0101100 1110110001 111101111 111111 11100100 111 111011 0111111 11101101010 10010110 0010 010010100011 01001010 1001 111 1101 001010011
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 139
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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; i is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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- summary of I Am Wishing For Something Other Than This;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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More information about poems by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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- Analysis of No Other Point Of View
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