This is an analysis of the poem As It Is that begins with:
I might wish the world were better,
I might sit around and sigh...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababacacdbdbaeaefgfghbhbicicXjXjdbdb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 36,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101010 1110111 10101010 1010101 11111010 1010101 11101010 0001111 11111110 1111111 00111010 1000101 11111010 1110101 11111010 0011101 11101010 1110001 10111010 10010101 11111010 1010101 00111010 1110101 10111010 1110011 10111010 1010101 11111110 1111101 10100010 1111101 11101010 1111101 11111110 1110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1108
- Average number of words per stanza: 231
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; it, i, and, to, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, and, here are repeated.
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- summary of As It Is;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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