This is an analysis of the poem Isn'T That The Reason that begins with:
Why should you undo what has been done?
And if you could......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcddeeaafcffbaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011101 1011 111 11000100 00111101 10001 01010111 001010 1001010 1110110 001101 1110110 11111010 11101010101 111010110 11101010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 483
- Average number of words per stanza: 89
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
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; you is repeated.
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