This is an analysis of the poem To What Serves Mortal Beauty? that begins with:
To what serves mortal beauty ' —dangerous; does set danc-
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaabbaabccbccb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 01110101100111 11011111101101 10111101101011 11001111101101 1011111110100 1101111111011 111100010111101 11110010111111 0111110111101 11111111100011 11001111101111 1111110110101 11110111111101 1111111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 874
- Average number of words per stanza: 172
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 62 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; ', to, s are repeated.
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