This is an analysis of the poem If I Were Another that begins with:
If I were another on the road, I would not have looked
back, I would have said what one traveler said...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbbcd bXefcXcafbe bXggdg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,11,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01001010111111 11111111001 001010010 0011011011111 1011111011111110 0110010111110111 111011111011 01001011101001 10111101010001 111100110111 0100011001110 1111111101110 010010101111 10101000111110 1001001001 01111101100 11011011111 101000001 0100101011111 0001111101 010101010100100 1111111010 01100100111011 10111010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 381
- Average number of words per stanza: 72
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, may, and, my, road are repeated.
The author used the same word if at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of If I Were Another;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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