This is an analysis of the poem Without A Ph.D that begins with:
To what purpose...
Would obtaining a Doctorate's Degree, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbcdceb BfXbgc BhXdXdXa Xgiah icdcdeh XX fac fX XaXaff XXXabadff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,8,5,7,2,3,2,6,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0110 10100100001 11 01111101 11101101 10010010110100 01010101101 1101 0001010011111 1110100100100 0101 10011101 010110010 1010011111001 0001010011111 1110101000 1100101 1 1100101 011101010 111001 11101010 1001111101 110100101010 111110110011 0010011011010 11000110100 1 0110101010010 11000011001 1101001010100 11010000101 0111 101010100 1 10111 011111 11110010 010010011010100 111111 11000101 001010100100100 10000100101 1010111101011 0010010101 10001011101 1010101100 1 11101010101 0100 1011 11101110 11111010 01101 1110010100
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 167
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 55
- 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.
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; to, could, and, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, i are repeated.
The author used the same word is at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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