This is an analysis of the poem We Are Not Of The 'But-If' Kind that begins with:
A wanting with wishes to get,
Takes much more than just wanting it....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcaa daeacX adafa gX XXebgf X Xe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,5,2,6,1,2,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01001001 11111100 010010110100 10101100101 01101 010100001 11001100101 0110101 111100101010 011101001001 1001011010 010001110000 110101101 0101111111 110110011 01010001 10111010101 11010111 01101101100 01111010111 010100101110010 1111000010 111010101010100 00010001 11101101 1 1 11100111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 148
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
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; to is repeated.
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- summary of We Are Not Of The 'But-If' Kind;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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