This is an analysis of the poem If All Your Issues Had Been Fixed that begins with:
What would you do?
If all your issues had been fixed....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCACAA AdXCACA XeeCAACC XddcACAACAA ABCACAAXABCA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,8,11,12,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111 01110101 11 1111 11 1111 1111 1111 11101 111101 11 1111 11 1111 1111101 11111111 01 11 1111 1111 11 11 1110110 1010010 01110101 111011 1111 11 1111 1111 11 1111 1111 1111 01110101 11 1111 11 1111 1111 1111 01110101 11 1111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 144
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 19 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; what, would, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words what, tell are repeated.
The author used the same words what, when 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 do, me are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word do at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of If All Your Issues Had Been Fixed;
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- idea of the verse;
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