This is an analysis of the poem Nothing To Gain that begins with:
I can not override your guilt maintained
By sweetening my experiences, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aba bXcde efdXffggf aXabcb gbagaXbbcaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,5,9,6,11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111011101 1100101000 101101 11110111 11110101 1111001 10101011110 11010010111 111011001 101011001 11110100101010 1101111 11110101010001 1110111101 1101101 11100 1111 0111111 101100 1001110010 00110111 10101110101 0111101 1101010101010 10101010111 100101010111010 1111011 010100010 1101111 11110001001010 1010110 00100111 1110101 1001111101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 239
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, my, to are repeated.
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- summary of Nothing To Gain;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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