This is an analysis of the poem Wishing that begins with:
Do you wish the world were better?
Let me tell you what to do: ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbcdeX afXfghXh gdXdgeee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101010 1111101 1011110 1011111 11101010 1110111 11101010 0011101 11101010 1011101 10101010 0011011 11111110 1011101 01101110 1110111 11101010 1010111 10101010 1110101 10100010 1100101 10111110 1010001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 256
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; to, you are repeated.
The author used the same word do at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Wishing;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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