This is an analysis of the poem The Wishing-Caps that begins with:
Life's all getting and giving,
I've only myself to give.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdedEfef gdgdXhXhEiei gbXbcbebejej
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110110 1101101 11111010 1101101 10111010 1011111 1011001101 11111001 010110 111110 0111110 1011011 111010010 101001101 1010110 100111 10010010 1001001 100111111010 101011111 010110 1011001 01111110 11001000 011010010 10100101 1010110 100111 10110010 1011001 1001101001 101011011 010110 1101011 01111010 1011101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 554
- Average number of words per stanza: 72
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; fortune, her are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases fortune, good connect the lines.
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- summary of The Wishing-Caps;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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