This is an analysis of the poem If People Did What They Enjoyed that begins with:
If people did what they enjoyed,
There would be fewer people in debt....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXXXXXabXXbA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01001101 110101001 0101010110 10101011 11110110 1101100 11010 10100101 110101101 010111010 1111101010 01001101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 408
- Average number of words per stanza: 71
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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