This is an analysis of the poem In A Frantic Reach For Yesterday that begins with:
It is all right there.
There to conveniently ignore, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcbXd acdceXcffX XXXgdXebdg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,10,10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00111 10010001 110010 1110101 11000 0010100 010101 0101 100001 010 11101 1101000101001 010110 1110101 110101 0111101 110111101 010101001 100110010 001011101 101 1111110101 1111110101 11101111 101110100 1 10111010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 250
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; has is repeated.
The author used the same word it at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase there connects the lines.
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