This is an analysis of the poem The Wish Of To-Day that begins with:
I ask not now for gold to gild
With mocking shine a weary frame;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd aeae dfdf ghgh eeee bdbdXadad
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11111101 01010101 01000101 111111 01110101 100101101 11110101 111111 11010001 11110101 11010001 110011 010111001 11011111 01001101 111001 01010101 01001111 010011101 010101 01111101 01010111 11011111 111101 11110111 11110101 11010111 110101 11110111 11011101 01011101 101101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 124
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 32
- 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; vain, i, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, a, in, and are repeated.
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