This is an analysis of the poem Why Am I Needing This? that begins with:
I am not those dark days lived.
To perform an existing within shadows....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXbdX ecc BBBbcbfX XedX BBbXbfa fX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,3,8,4,7,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111111 00110100111 111 1111000 101 01110010 1111101000 11101010001011 11101 110101001001 11011101 101010110 11011101 011111 111001 01010011010 010100 01101 11111110 11 11111010 010010010 11011101 101010110 11011111 1111010 0111010010 111100 011000101 111100 10011111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 162
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 31
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; i is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, i'm are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Why Am I Needing This?;
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- history of its creation;
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