This is an analysis of the poem If You Want What Visible Reality that begins with:

If you want what visible reality
can give, you're an employee....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01111000100 1111010 0110011 111011 110110 1100101010 1111010 10101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 237
  • Average number of words per stanza: 41
  • Amount of lines: 8
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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  • summary of If You Want What Visible Reality;
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  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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