This is an analysis of the poem To Whom Does It Benefit that begins with:
No one's steps taken to achieve,
Are done without many lessons to learn....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXbc X Xbadefghg dX a fX XghgebbbgX XiX feegiijbaa Xbbgbhe j gcagibX gX fXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,1,9,2,1,2,10,3,10,7,1,7,2,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110001 1101101001 11001011001 01011010101 0101010 11011101100 0110001 11101000 1110100101 0110101001 0110101110 1010011101 111111011 1000110 11101001 111 1010100 101100 110001 11011010101011 1 110101 10100111110 1111010101 101011010 10110100 0111110110100 1011111010 1110100111 01101110110 111 10 11111110 1 0010111 01001 1011101001 1111100101 100110101 1010110 11010100 101011101001 001000111101001 1 1011001011 010110010100 1111101 110101 1001101110 1101111010101 11010 11111 1010111110 0111 111101010 001011001 1111010111111 01100 11111001101 011 111 01111011010 1111010010 1001110
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 151
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; to, and, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words with, why are repeated.
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- summary of To Whom Does It Benefit;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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