This is an analysis of the poem If It Had Not Been For You that begins with:
If it had not been for you...
I would not know joy like this....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbXcAddabb AXbbXcXXAa AeeeXXaadeAXdXAcAcaAAa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,22,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0011011 1111110 11110011 11001 0011011 1100 111011 101111 0110011 1001011101 10011011 0100111010 1110110100 0111011 1000100 111001 1111011 11111 0011011 10011010011 10011011 111110 1011010101 1111010111 111111101 100111111 110011011 1110011 1101010100 00100111100 0011011 011001101 10101000 111 10110 0011011 01111011 01101001 111 111 11101011001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 311
- Average number of words per stanza: 64
- Amount of lines: 41
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
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, had, you, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word and 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 is repeated).
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- summary of If It Had Not Been For You;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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