This is an analysis of the poem That Person You Are that begins with:
Sometimes I sit with wishes,
Wanting you to be someone different......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABC XXXb XXaaa ABCcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,4,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111010 1010011100 101011 1111000110 11010 11101 0010101 1111011101 111111011 011011 11111100 10111110101 0111010 1010011100 101011 1111011 00111010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 132
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 17
- 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; you, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines are is repeated).
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of That Person You Are;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!
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More information about poems by Lawrence S. Pertillar
- Analysis of The Best Gift One Can Receive
- Analysis of You Do Not Have To Be Insulting
- Analysis of In The Numbing Done To Free From Dilemmas
