This is an analysis of the poem If That Is Possible that begins with:
If you are not about who you are...
Then why are you here in prejudgement? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXXbcbbdcXaXdXXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011101111 1111101000 010010111 1001010 1111111 1001 11110101 10100 0101010 111111 1010 1111 010100 1000 11010101 110111110 111010001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 473
- Average number of words per stanza: 92
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you is repeated.
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