This is an analysis of the poem Wasting It On Wishes that begins with:
Never again will I view my disappointments as man made.
I use to believe my wishes had to meet someone's approval....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXb Xcb def dXcbgaef adffc habaccgbchXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,8,5,12,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100101110010111 1100111010111010 0111011100 10011 110010001 110011101011 111011111001 1010111110 101011101 111101101 11010110111 00101 11001101111 001 11010011 11010010 01000 11010 11 11111101011 100010110010 0110 100 0110 1101110 10111011 101111 10101101 10111010 0100001 1101101 1100 01 10
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 169
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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, my are repeated.
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- summary of Wasting It On Wishes;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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