This is an analysis of the poem If I Could Turn Back The Time that begins with:
If I could only chase away,
Every disappointment that had come your way......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AabbCDE AfggXCDE bbbcDE fXEFEHE aehehgeebgX efXEFEHE iXggeHeeda aei faXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,8,6,7,11,8,10,3,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110101 100101011111 011101 11010001 11 0111101 0010110011 01110101 110001010 0111010101 1011100 11001110111 11 0111101 0010110011 01101011111 11010111 1111110010 111 0111101 0010110011 111101001010 010101001 1111 110111010 1011010101 01111 01000010001001 10111 111001 01111 1001001111 10111010 1110001100 1101 0101001100 10010100110 011110010 011111 1 11101001010 010101001 1111 110111010 1011010101 01111 01000010001001 111 1110111 0110011011101 01101100 01101001 01111 010010100 01001 1110111101 001011011101 011 1 110111101 1111 111 11110111110 11
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 219
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, to are repeated.
The author used the same word if 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 me is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word trust at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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