This poem details Aiden’s struggles in high school with putting in effort to his work at the time of writing. The poem is serious and contemplative as it contemplates willpower, how it works, and how to obtain it, while never directly explaining. Each stanza has 4 lines meaning it is a quatrain, each stanza has an “AABB” rhyme scheme. When the poem says “Hardly hours for horses and hamon” it’s alluding to shows that Aiden was watching at the time, the poem uses a trip to the dentist as a metaphor for willpower, an example of synecdoche in the poem is when the narrator says “game concepts stuck in the tower” the tower being the term for a computer box to represent the entire computer. The poem recreates its emotions with rhyming and describing the narrators life. I chose “Evening Primrose” from Imperishable Night because I felt that the relaxed tone fit the poem.
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Music is from the Touhou Project by ZUN