This is an analysis of the poem What's The Need To Save For A Rainy Day? that begins with:

What's the need to save for a rainy day?
Or keep good dishes to look at, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ABcbc bXbddbc eb XDB XEC ABX XDBbb AXcEC
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,7,2,3,3,3,5,5,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010110101 11010011 1101 1011 110101 00101111001 1101111101 0010111011011 11111101011 111101 001111011110 1110110010110 0101010001010001 01010111010100 101110101100 10100010101 11110001101 01110101100 1001 1010000 1010110101 11010011 11001 101110101100 10100010101 11110001101 11010101 11110011 1010110101 11010 0111101 1001 1010000
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 152
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 33
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word whoever is repeated.

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