This is an analysis of the poem A Wish that begins with:
I'd like to be a boy again, a care-free prince of joy again,
I'd like to tread the hills and dales the way I used to do;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababaccc ababcdcd eeceXaca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100010101110101 11010111011101 1101010101010101 01010101110111 1101110111010101 11010110010101 1101110111110111 11110001111101 1100010101011101 11011101011101 1101110111010101 11010101010111 1111110111011101 11010101110101 1111111111010101 11111101110101 1111110111011101 11111101111111 1101010111110101 11111101010100 1110010111010111 11110111010101 1111011111010111 11110100011101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 515
- Average number of words per stanza: 104
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 64 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; again, i'd, to, like, i, and, have, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i'd, and, that are repeated.
The author used the same word i'd at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of A Wish;
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