This is an analysis of the poem If I Was President that begins with:
If I was President
The first thing I would do...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbAbdbAcccbccecdcefegfgddXXfhbiaaffjhiffekilbgXkfjiXdkhihdXkkgfebfXkfagbmafijhlhegXKgKfKkflggbiagXhjaffekXmmafgfbk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 116,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011101 011111 010101001 1 011101 011111 0110100 1 011101 0110111 0110 110 1 011011 011010 101 11101 1010 11101001 11110 111010 00101101 1010 1111 1011 011010 01110 010101011011 10 110010 1010110 11011 100100 1 01010101 010 111101 0101 10 010010101 100 100 10 1110 10 0110 01110 1110010 00101010 11101000 0010 1100 11100 11111 1110110 01011111 0111 00100 111 111110101110 1110100101 101 01 1111111 010 0100 1111 11110101 1001 101 1101 0010 0101 1110 1010 101 1110 1010110 00 1101001 010 101 1000110 111 1000 1011 11 1011 101 1011 11 01 10010 100 1111001 01 111 1110 0111100 11 11101 00101 1110 1011 111 1011110 1111 111010101011100 111011111 011 110101 110101010 1001010 100111 01 1111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2271
- Average number of words per stanza: 438
- Amount of lines: 116
- Average number of symbols per line: 19 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, would, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, they are repeated.
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