This is an analysis of the poem Wonderful If Wishes Like This Could Begin that begins with:
It would be wonderful to be able to predict,
One man elected can fix the lives of those troubled....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXa bXc acX dbdXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,3,3,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 0101000010001 1101011010110 11010100 1101010100 10100111001011 0010111001 1110101000 01010001 11010110101 011110111 01010001010101 11111010100101 1101 1110100100 1010001100010001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 155
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; be, to, our are 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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