'Well' is not for emphasis or prosody. Prosody is for poems. Here, 'well' is an interjection. It has no meaning, it simply introduces the sentence.
'Now would there?' is where I'm guessing confused the asker. It is indeed a rhetorical question. A rhetorical question is... Empty. It is used for style and exaggeration rather than to be answered. It can also be used to ask for agreement on a previous idea.
E.g. 1: "This dress is ugly, isn't it?" (Asking for a confirmation / agreement that the dress is ugly.)
E.g. 2: "I know, right?" (Common teenager spew where 'right' most likely means nothing.)
A rhetorical question is also bombastic. By that, I mean that it uses extra words for nothing, with the sole purpose of being pretentious and pompous (not a good thing...) When used like that, it's a little thing we like to call 'sarcasm.'