This is an analysis of the poem What I See Is Neither Wished Nor Wanted that begins with:
Look around you.
'And......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a XbX cXXbcX dX d XX cb XaaaXeXX ee XaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,3,6,2,1,2,2,8,2,3,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011 1 110 11 11001010 1010010010 11100011010 010111 001110 100111 11110 11101011101 100010010 1 1111011001 011100101 1010 1 1 1 1 111 101101 1 10010101 111 110 1 1 11
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 56
- Average number of words per stanza: 10
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 18 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 3
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
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- summary of What I See Is Neither Wished Nor Wanted;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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