This is an analysis of the poem Only With My Wishes that begins with:
It is only with my wishes,
You get what is deserved....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Abcb AcXX AXbXdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 00100110 111001 11101 11001010 00100110 11101 010001000 101000110 00100110 111111 01101 010111 1111 110010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you is repeated.
The author used the same word it at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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