This is an analysis of the poem Wanting 'Things' Never Seems To End that begins with:

Teased with a wish of wanting 'things',
Never seems to end....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaaXa bbXcXa acXabX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 10010101 10101 011100010001 101001011 101111 00101010100 1100100010 1111101100 0101000100 001110101001 1000100101101 1001000101110 0101010001111 00110100111 1111110011001 0101011 0100001000100 01101100100111
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 254
  • Average number of words per stanza: 43
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.

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