This is an analysis of the poem When An Interest Begins To Wane that begins with:

When an interest begins to wane.
As if a weeding from a flowered crop......

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AXXa babXcXAacc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111000101 1001000101 1001 101010 00101010 101001 101110100 1011001001 01011101 111000101 10101 110101 0111
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 127
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 13
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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.

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  • summary of When An Interest Begins To Wane;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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