This is an analysis of the poem There Had To Have Been A Reason that begins with:
Do I place my shoes,
Around or near your bed? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXa XbXb XXbXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111 011111 1111011 0101011 11110101 11011101 11010010 011100101001 11111010 11111 110111000 00101110000101 1110001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 135
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 13
- 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.
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