This is an analysis of the poem The Reason And Cause For Their Pain that begins with:

Everyday!
Everyday as if a ritual, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aBXc BcX BcX aBXX addeeffdXbced
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,3,3,4,13,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101 101100100 110010 01101001 101100100 10101 01111 101100100 10101 1101101 101 101100100 1011101 001010010100 1101 11010101 11100010 01101 111 1111101 111001 11111 1101011 11101000101 11001101 01011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 119
  • Average number of words per stanza: 19
  • Amount of lines: 26
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 4
  • 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.

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