This is an analysis of the poem To What Is It Being Compared? that begins with:
How can the best of one's craft be determined?
And to what is it being compared? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb XXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010110010 101001001 11011010001010 001010010010 1100110011010 01111 1110111 0010010011101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 167
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
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; that is repeated.
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