Lonely Hearts

In the poem Lonely Hearts, Wendy Cope creates the majority of her story through the repetition of a certain pattern and some key lines. She uses a pattern to create a sense that this person seeking another requires that desired one to have certain features and maybe not have other. She does this through the diction that describes the specific type of people that she is looking for in certain lines. The important lines that she repeats not only clue is on to what she is really looking for, but they also give us a sense of where she is both in the world and at a point of desperation. She writes, "Can someone make my simple wish come true?"(1, 6, 12, 18) in order to convey the depth to which she truly desires to find that certain someone for her life. She repeats it because it is so vastly important to her. She wants to find a love that can make all of her wishes come true. The second repeated line is, "Do you live in North London? Is it you?"(3, 9, 15, 19) and this line gives us direction to where she is. Along with that direction, she really wants those that are reading to contemplate their circumstances and how they would matchup to the specific circumstances that she has outlined for them. This is vital because after each description of various sorts, the reader then must decide wether they are a possible candidate. It also seems to cause an inquisitive nature to arise in the reader as to what they are looking for in their spouse.