usually cyclic intermediates are formed in two situations :
1. when rxns take place on an aromatic ring
2. when a cyclic ring is formed from a linear chain
as you may know that intermediate formation generally takes place only when the intermediates formed are stable...
looking at the aromatic intermediate you can easily predict whether it is stable or not...
generally the rings formed from linear chain are stable (also depend on the stability of the ring)...
this, perhaps explains your question...