This is an analysis of the poem To Who's Benefit Does This Advantage that begins with:
Are we born and destined to be idiots?
Is there a switch that clicks off in our heads, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCDEFBC eeeaXb dXcXbXccXABCDEFBC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,17,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111000100 0101111011 1110100011001 11101010 0110100010 1101001 0010111 010 0101100010 1101010100001 010001000100001 10010011 11010101010 1101011 00100010000100 10111 1110100010 10110010010 10101101101 1001011110000 11 10110100100 11111000100 0101111011 1110100011001 11101010 0110100010 1101001 0010111 010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 274
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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; it is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word it at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of To Who's Benefit Does This Advantage;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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