This is an analysis of the poem If It Should Come To Be that begins with:
If it should come to be,
This proof of you and me,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbb ccdaad
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 001100 010111 0111 0101111 111111 1111 000101 111101 1101 111111 110111 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 141
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word this is repeated.
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