This is an analysis of the poem To Want With Wishes It More Lived that begins with:
May no day you've left behind you,
To want with wishes it more lived....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXabaX cXcXbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111011 01010011 1101 101010 010101 111011101 11101010 1010111 11110011 00101000101 00101001 111101011001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 209
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; you, to are repeated.
The author used the same word may at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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