This is an analysis of the poem If The World Was Crazy that begins with:
If the world was crazy, you know what I'd eat?
A big slice of soup and a whole quart of meat,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaacd eXccXddd ffeeXXdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00111011111 01101101101 01011011111 11011101001 01111011011 11001111111 011011010110 11111001110 00111011111 0101101010 11101111001 11101001011 1101101110110 111111111110 010100110110 01001001110 00111011111 11101011011 11101111101 11101011101 1111101111 11111011110 1010011010110 11101001110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 371
- Average number of words per stanza: 75
- Amount of lines: 24
- 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; and, i'd, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, i'd, 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 ' is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word crazy at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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