This is an analysis of the poem What Is There To Gain? that begins with:
What promises come with stress?
What kind of happiness associates itself with pain? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCD daba daaa aXd ABCD aecddeecXe eXeXABCD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,3,4,10,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100101 11010001000101 11001010001 1010111111 1111100101 1101011101 101011010 10100101010111 11101010 101011011 10100001 010101010101011 10010100100100010 101100100 0010010001001 1100101 11010001000101 11001010001 1010111111 1010010100111 1110101 111100100001 1111111110100 101101011010 1101111 100010 10101 11111 10110110111 100110101011 110100010 10010110101 1100101 11010001000101 11001010001 1010111111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 190
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
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; what, of, in, this, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word what is repeated.
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- summary of What Is There To Gain?;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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