This is an analysis of the poem The Wishing Gate that begins with:
[In the vale of Grasmere, by the side of an old highway
leading to Ambleside, is a gate, which, from time out of ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabX ccdeed eefbbf bbbddb gghiih eeabbX eecXXc eejkkj cXbllb bbedde hhbccb mmkddk hhdbbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00101010101111 10010000110110 1101010100011 101101110100010 11010101 110110111 110011 11010101 11010111 110101 11010101 11011101 110111 11011101 11010001 110101 110110001 10110111 110101 10010011 1010101 010101 01100101 110100101 110101 010100101 10110111 110101 01111001 01010101 100101 10100110 01000100 010010 110010001 01010111 010101 0010001100 1010010110 110001 11110101 01010111 010101 01010101 010110101 110101 10111101 01110110 1111001 01110001 01011101 0101001 11011111 010010001 110001 110100101 11000111 110101 01010001 01111111 010001 11010101 11011101 010101 01111111 01111101 110111 11111001 01010101 010001 11011101 01110101 011101 11010101 010010101 010100
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 203
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 76
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- 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; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Wishing Gate;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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