This is an analysis of the poem Things Happen For Their Reasons that begins with:

Things happen for their reasons.
And there is no need to make excuses, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AAXB Abcc dAeaeAad AA fAbAA fbAA AAXB aadAdeXAfad
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,8,2,5,4,4,11,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101110 1101101010 10100 01011 1101110 1 10101 11010101 1110101 1101110 11100101 1101110 1001011001 1101110 01010 010011 1101110 1101110 1110111 1101110 11010101 1101110 1101110 11010111 1101011011001 1101110 1101110 1101110 1101101010 10100 01011 101110 001101111010 111010001 1101110 110100 0100010 1101110 10010011 0010001 110011
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 139
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 41
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; happen, for, their, reasons are repeated.

    The author used the same word things 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 reasons is repeated).

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

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