This is an analysis of the poem If I Were King that begins with:
I often wish I were a King,
And then I could do anything....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bb cc cX XX bb XX aX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011001 11111101 01010101 11111001 01010101 11011111 11010101 11110100 01010100 11110001 01010101 11110101 01010100 11010101 01010101 1101010010
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 64
- Average number of words per stanza: 13
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, king, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word if at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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