This is an analysis of the poem If You Had It that begins with:
Once you have been lied to...
By anyone who claims, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXabcdX dcccbd XedbXce
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,6,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010 110011 11101 101001 1100 10111 010010 1110101 0101101001 111101 001001001 00101010 01101 101 10100100 01010111 010 1010110010010 0110 111100100100
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 180
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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; you is repeated.
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