This is an analysis of the poem The Slave Boy's Wish that begins with:

I wish I was that little bird,
Up in the bright blue sky,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXbXcdcXedeebXbafXfXgXgbgfgabbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111101 100111 11111110 111111 11111101 111101 110101101 100101 11111101 010111 10110101 1010001 11111111 110101 11011101 1010101 11111101 10101110 10011111 1110010 11000101 111001 11000101 111101 11011001 110111 11010111 111001 11110101 101101 110010111 111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 939
  • Average number of words per stanza: 191
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, my are repeated.

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