This is an analysis of the poem That Need For Words Like These that begins with:

This time unlike those we have passed...
Like the blooming of fresh scented Spring flowers....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AbX caddacdX eXadfXXXb AaXaaegbfbeg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,8,9,12,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01011111 101001100110 101001110101 01 1110101001 10110101110 101 0010101 0110101 0010101 11011110 11000011010 110010110001 1101010011 011010101110 1 1110100010 111 1111101 101 01011111 10111 01111 01111001 011111101 01100110010 01011011 0111111 000111 011000110 111010 11011
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 256
  • Average number of words per stanza: 47
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • 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; to, we are repeated.

    The author used the same word this at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of That Need For Words Like These;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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