This is an analysis of the poem If They Had The Time And Opportunity that begins with:
What I have chosen to do,
If I know what to be done is right......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaabcXXcXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111001 011100101 0010 11010100 1110111 01101010 00100011 10010 011111101 01101110100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 307
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 10
- 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; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
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