This is an analysis of the poem Why We Tell Stories that begins with:
For Linda Foster
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X XaaXbc dcaea afcgc e Xahib cadhbcaaXa Xjj agg Xb aibf gXgc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,6,5,5,1,5,10,3,3,2,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010 1 0111011 1111 110101 101011 110001 10111001 11111001 0101011 0111011 1010110 10101111 1111010010 1110101 110110100 011011010 1101 1 111010011 10110111101 0101010 11101011 1011011010 1010010010 10111 1010111 10111111 1011101 101101011 1010111 001111 111001 1 01010011 0111 011011 0110 1101010 110110 0111 0111010110 1001010 111010011 110100100 1111010 0100011 1001110 0011
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 111
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 50
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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; we, and are repeated.
The author used the same word and 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 life is repeated).
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