This is an analysis of the poem Could We Live That Kind Of Life that begins with:
If I said to you,
Those things you wanted to hear and liked......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbddcebCcbC DFa ggAbADAHAi AHAe aeJ IJ eJ IJ JBJbBB DFAbADAbgbJ BJBBBXJBBbjB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,3,10,4,3,2,2,2,6,11,12,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01101 111100111 1111101010 01011 1110101001 01111001 10110 111 10110111 1010 010 0101111010 1010 0110101011110 1110 011101 101101010011 01 11 01 111 101 111 010100110101011 111 11111110101 11 010100110101011 111 111111101001 11 11111001 110 1111111101 1110 1111111001 110 1111111101 1110 110 10001011 110 10001001101 10001011 1101100100 0110101011110 1110 111 01 111 101 111 01010101 1111 1001111 110 10001011 110 100010011 10001011 1101100100 110 100010011 10001011 11101111 11100110 1101100100
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 147
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 67
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, or, you, say, something, even, if, its are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words even, i are repeated.
The author used the same words if, do at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines something is repeated).
The poet repeated the same words something, it at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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