This is an analysis of the poem In Need Of An Audience that begins with:
The ones with egos,
Seem to always bring their mysteries......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabXacac ddc bebcdb cXdXbe cXaXb aXaXbeee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,3,6,6,5,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010 101111100 0001 000101100 110010 01011001 101000001 11100001 01010 10111001 11111111 11010100 010110010001 01111 01100101 11010110101 1011000101 1000100 1010101000 100100111101 01011 1010001 11101100001 10101100 1111110011 101011001010 110011 010011101 11110101 0010111010 0010001001001 010101011010 0101101 01 11010001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 167
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, they are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word in is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of In Need Of An Audience;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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