This is an analysis of the poem What Is There To Lose that begins with:
What is there to lose,
If one's sanity is gained? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabcb cdcd aaaa XaXbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,4,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 10101 0110001 1010100101 10101110 011010111 11001 010011010001 110110100 11010000101 11001010 10101010 010100111 010101001 110011000 101100 11001001010 1101 110110111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 154
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; that is repeated.
The author used the same word what at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of What Is There To Lose;
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- idea of the verse;
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