This is an analysis of the poem Why Is This Need Unknown? that begins with:
If it's needed,
Why await for it to come....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABACACA ABACACA ADEC ABACACAXADEC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,4,12,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0010 1011001 010 1100101 010 110101 10001001 0010 1011001 010 1100101 010 110101 10001001 100101 1010001 11 100101 0010 1011001 010 1100101 010 110101 10001001 100101 1010001 11 100101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 130
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 22 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
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; who, why are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word who is repeated.
The author used the same word if at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word pleased at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase why connects the lines.
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- summary of Why Is This Need Unknown?;
- central theme;
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