Analysis of I Would Like (Short version)



I would like
to be born
in every country,
have a passport
for them all
to throw
all foreign offices
into panic,
be every fish
in every ocean
and every dog
in the streets of the world.
I don’t want to bow down
before any idols
or play at being
a Russian Orthodox church hippie,
but I would like to plunge
deep into Lake Baikal
and surface snorting
somewhere,
why not in the Mississippi?


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Poetic Form
Metre 111 111 010010 101 111 11 110100 0110 11001 010010 01001 001101 111111 011010 11110 01010110 111111 10111 01010 1 1100010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 371
Words 74
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 21
Lines Amount 21
Letters per line (avg) 15
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 305
Words per stanza (avg) 74
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Submitted on April 29, 2017

Modified on April 09, 2023

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Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Russian poet and novelist, (July 1933 – April 2017). Perhaps best known for his poetry, he also wrote novels, screenplays and essays. more…

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