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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