This is an analysis of the poem If I Wish that begins with:
I wish nothing more than to sit,
Doing nothing and liking it....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aab Xccc Xa cXbbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,4,2,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic tetrameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11101101 10101100 011 11101101 1110101010 01111010 010010101010 111010101 01011101 101110110001 001011110 000110111 0010111011 01
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 110
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, wish, nothing are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word it is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines wish is repeated).
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