This is an analysis of the poem I Desire that begins with:

I want to have the extremes of your Love,
See, how silly am I, wishing for unachievable....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XX ab cXa Xc Xb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,3,2,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101001011 1110111011000 11101101110001110 111100100011101 101101001000101 101110010101 1110101011100100110 11011110110101 110110111000110 101010010 11001011011
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 113
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 11
  • Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, to, want 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 i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of I Desire;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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