This is an analysis of the poem To Seek This Sought that begins with:

More important becomes a life to live,
By anyone who has experienced......

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

The information we provided is prepared by means of a special computer program. Use the criteria sheet to understand greatest poems or improve your poetry analysis essay.

  • Rhyme scheme: AbcXXbd dXAXceeXAacebbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,15,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010010101 1100110100 100100 11000010001 1011111 1010101010001 1110110 1110100100100 1101001101 1010010101 0011101011010 1101110 1101001000 11101010101010011 1010010101 11010011000010 100011010111 0110101101100 0011111101001 10111010110 00100101110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 311
  • Average number of words per stanza: 56
  • Amount of lines: 21
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; have, it, of, and, one, to are repeated.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of To Seek This Sought;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!

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