This is an analysis of the poem If This Was 1953 that begins with:
If this was 1953,
And I was still beset with fantasies......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XABcDEA ffgf eXABcDEA ffXfXXg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,4,8,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0011 1111010100 1101011000101 1000 111101011 111101011 110100010001 01010100110101 001001010110 111010101110101 111101101000 1 0011 1111010100 1101011000101 1000 111101011 111101011 110100010001 101001010 0010101 11000100 1010111101 110 111001 1011111111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 227
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
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