This is an analysis of the poem A Wish that begins with:
I ask not that my bed of death
From bands of greedy heirs be free;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd eeee fgfg hfhf iaia dXdb bdbd jeje jhjh fefe kaka glgl
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11111101 01010101 11010101 010100111 11111101 10101111 11100101 11111111 11111111 01001101 11010011 1110111 110100101 01111111 01000101 111101001 11011101 11010111 01010111 01110101 110100101 00110111 01010001 01000101 01010101 11010100 111111101 11110111 11011110 11010101 10010111 11011101 10010101 01100111 01111111 01111111 11010101 11010111 111101001 11011111 11111101 01011111 01010111 01011101 00110101 01110101 01010101 11010001 11010111 01010101 11011101 01111111
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 138
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 52
- 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; of, my, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, to are repeated.
The author used the same words i, nor at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of A Wish;
- central theme;
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