Keep Your Wishes Superlicious by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Keep Your Wishes Superlicious that begins with:

Keep your wishes 'superlicious'
And keep your worth...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XABbcdXdXd XABXcb XXXb Xc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,6,4,2,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11101000 1111 0101 111 0101010 110101 0111100 1001 0011011110 01 11101000 1111 0101 10101101 1010100 1111101 11101000 110110 011011 001001011 11101000 1111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 144
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 22
  • Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 4

  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.

    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; your is repeated.

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

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

  • summary of Keep Your Wishes Superlicious;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!

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