This is an analysis of the poem Who Benefits From A Not Getting Of It? that begins with:
No one's here to endure pain or suffering.
No one can explain to what gain pain brings....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AB CDEFEG CEFEG DEfEG hAChAC AB hAChAC FhAChAC FFhACXF
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,6,5,5,6,2,6,7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11100111100 1110101111 1100010101 1100010101 11000 011000 11000 01000 1100010101 11000 011000 11000 01000 1100010101 11000 1100 11000 01000 10 1110 11011011001 10 1110 11011011001 11100111100 1110101111 10 1110 11011011001 10 1110 11011011001 11000011000 10 1110 11011011001 10 1110 11011011001 11000011000 11000011000 10 1110 11011011001 11000011000
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 123
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 45
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
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; who, benefits, from are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words no, who are repeated.
The author used the same word who at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it is repeated).
The poet repeated the same words this, love at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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