This is an analysis of the poem Not Only Will This Be A Need that begins with:
There is a certain need coming,
To be less thoughtless......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCD eXfXf eXbbdd ABCDXee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,6,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10010110 00110 0101001 10110010 100100101 11100000001110 11111001 00100111 10011011 1 1100011101 01010101101 100110 100110 10101 10010110 00110 0101001 10110010 111000001 00001010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 127
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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 is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word maybe is repeated.
The author used the same word there at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Not Only Will This Be A Need;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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