This is an analysis of the poem If that begins with:
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabcbc dedefcfc cgcgXfaX Xhahifif
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01111111011 1101110011 01111011111 1101011101 011111010110 1101011101 11010111010 1111101111 01111111110 0111111111 01110101010 1111010101 01110101110 1011010111 11011111010 1111010111 01111101110 1101110111 11110111010 1101010111 01111111110 0111110111 11111101001 01001100111 01110111110 1101110101 01011101111 0111011111 01110001001 0101010101 10011101100 1101100111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 375
- Average number of words per stanza: 73
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, and, if, can, to, your, with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words or, if, and 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.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).
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