This is an analysis of the poem If I Could Afford It that begins with:
Would I rather live,
Where a quality of life......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXaa bXbXbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101 1010001 0011010 00011101 111100110100 0110111100 11101 1111 11101 1010 11011001 011010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 157
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
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