This is an analysis of the poem Whenever I Wished that begins with:
I never thought I would be,
The one in need of love....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABcdEea ABAFc XXfddda ABdEafXXABAFdcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,5,7,15,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101110 010101 1100110 110100 101001101 1111101 11101 1101110 010101 110101011 0101111100 101010 1111010111 10101100 011001110 1011010101 1111010110 100100 01010101 1101110 010101 11010110100 101001101 1110111 0111110 1 1101110 010101 110101011 0101111100 1111 11011110 0101001001011
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 195
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, me are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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