This is an analysis of the poem Maybe That's The Reason that begins with:
What is it,
That a living basically......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbXc A Abcb XdXXXbdXAda
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,1,4,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100 1010100 101 011010 1110 100 10100100 1110 11110100 1101111 01 11011111 111 1 111000110 0010111000111 1110 1101010 10101000001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 87
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 22 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
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.
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- summary of Maybe That's The Reason;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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