This is an analysis of the poem If What We Could&Mdash;Were What We Would that begins with:
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If What we could—were what we would—... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: cinquain
- Metre: 1 0111001110 100010 000100010 0100010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 73
- Average number of words per stanza: 11
- Amount of lines: 5
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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