This is an analysis of the poem Nothing Better To Wish that begins with:
Who lives with wishes to be stepped upon?
Like a cemented sidewalk, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcXb bcaXcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101000101 1001011 01000111011 11010011101 0010011011101 11010001100001101 101111001101 0101010001011011 110100110100101 1001100101001010 10101011010001 1010101011
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 304
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, and, be are repeated.
The author used the same word who at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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