This is an analysis of the poem If They Can Afford To Pay that begins with:
And...
Which hours am I allowed to roam, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abc defX f X da gXhcgdX cfc dXX cc bccfXX e hX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,4,1,1,2,7,3,3,2,6,1,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 110110101 010110111 11101111011 0101011000011 10100 0001001100110 011111001 11010101101001 11 011011101000110101 1110111 110 1111011011100 101010 1010110101 111001010 1001010101100110 110111100 111100010010 11101111 1010001001 0110110100 1010111011100 11110111 1010101 11011111001110 110010011010 11010111 101111010 1011111011110 01011011010100 110111 10110010110010 0110101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 111
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
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; be, to, they are repeated.
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- summary of If They Can Afford To Pay;
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- idea of the verse;
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