This is an analysis of the poem To What Extent? that begins with:
To what extent?
Does an intended pain inflicted, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdeb caca fcdf cXaXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101 110101010 10101001 010011101 0101101001 000101010 0101011011 101101111 0101110 110100101001 11010010101 10101010101 1010101101 100101001100 110100101011 111100100101 01011110001 10110101010000 10010100101101 111010011010001 1110111011001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 175
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
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; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
The author used the same word to at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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