This is an analysis of the poem If They Wanted that begins with:
Maybe I've been around the block...
Maybe just one and too many times....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbAcc AcBCdcefcAcgdbg AGFDCXCCC AcBCec AGFDCXCCC AGC AGCXAgC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,15,9,6,9,3,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10100101 101111101 10100101 1 1111011 10100101 1 1101 10111110101 00111 010 0111011100111 100 110100010 10100101 1 111 110101010 1001 10101011001 10100101 11 101100111 001 10 101010100011 1100110011111 111 0110 10100101 1 1101 10111110101 01111 010 10100101 11 101100111 001 10 101010100011 1100110011111 111 0110 10100101 111 11111011010 10100101 111 11111011010 10100101 1111 11111011010
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 174
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 53
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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; maybe, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words maybe, and are repeated.
The author used the same word maybe 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 could is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word defeated at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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