Wistful Rendezvous Won'T Do by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Wistful Rendezvous Won'T Do that begins with:

To pray and wait for wonderful days,
In a wistful rendezvous won't do....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ABCD eFF Xgahiia ai ABCD iag eFF habXeb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,3,7,2,4,3,3,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 011111001 001010111 110101010 01101 010 10111 111 111011 111010 0111001 1111011111 011110111 01101111 0101 111001110 111001 011111001 001010111 110101010 01101 01111110101 1011010101 10 010 10111 111 110101 101 1011 101 111010 11
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 98
  • Average number of words per stanza: 20
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5

  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.

    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, to are repeated.

    The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines am is repeated).

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  • summary of Wistful Rendezvous Won'T Do;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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