This is an analysis of the poem The Best Of Tests that begins with:
One wishes with hopes for those dreams to come true.
Most of us do....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa bbcc dcXeXbded
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11001111011 1011 110010010011001 11010011011 110100110011 0100011101 110101010001 0010100111001 110100101 1010001 101111 00100101 11 101001011 110100000101 1111010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 149
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- 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; one, to are repeated.
The author used the same word one at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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