This is an analysis of the poem There Is A Needed Reason that begins with:

There is a needed reason to keep your attention involved.
There is a needed reason to keep your attention involved....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AAAbB XaAABB CDCDEE CC AAABB CDCDEE CCXAAABB
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,6,6,2,5,6,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100101001101001 100101001101001 0101001101001 1001010 01010 100 101001101001 0101001101001 100101001101001 01010 01010 011011 01010111 0110111 0101 01 110101 10011 10101 100101001101001 100101001101001 0101001101001 01010 01010 011011 01010111 0110111 0101 01 110101 10011 10101 100101001101001 100101001101001 0101001101001 01010 01010
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 149
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 37
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; needed, reason, there, to, keep, your, attention, involved are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words there, a are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines involved, reason are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word reason at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of There Is A Needed Reason;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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