This is an analysis of the poem Why I Need To Love You that begins with:
Because I chose to love you
And I chose to woo you...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaB aaaB aaaB cccB dddB eeeBXabbB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111011 111011 111011 11 111011 1110111 1110011 11 0101111 101111 101111 11 1111101 1111101 11111 11 011111010 11111010 11111010 11 1110111 1110111 1110101 11 1101111 10111 1110011 11
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 91
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 22 (very short strings)
- 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; i, chose, to, you, and, again, girl, as, woman, why are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, now are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you, girl, woman, more are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word why at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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