This is an analysis of the poem An Ode that begins with:
WHAT boots it to be great?
To live in royal state... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aAbbaXcCddcXAaCcaXaeeacXccccaXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 31,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110001 010101 1101 1111 1101 1 110001 111101 1101 1001 1101 1 010101 101001 111101 101001 100001 1 100101 011111 0101 100001 100001 1 110001 011101 1101 100001 110001 1 110001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 670
- Average number of words per stanza: 130
- Amount of lines: 31
- Average number of symbols per line: 21 (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; to is repeated.
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- summary of An Ode;
- central theme;
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