This is an analysis of the poem Give Your Wish Light that begins with:

By day and night dream about happy death,
Poor dog give your heart room, drag at the chain,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababccbddbeeff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1111101101 1111111101 1111100011 010010110001 010101101011 110111001011 10110111110 100100111110 110010101110 11111111110 01011111101 1110100100101 100111110101 10110011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 718
  • Average number of words per stanza: 135
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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