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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  • summary of In A Frantic Reach For Yesterday;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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