This is an analysis of the poem So Much To Do that begins with:
The face of the world is a homely face,
And the look of the world unkind,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdb efefdf fgfgdg deddde dhdhdh dbdXdb chchdhXababdb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 0100100101 10100101 111110101 1110001 111001111 1110011 10111100111 111111 10100111010 01110111 10010111 100101 11011101 111111 110100101 011101 11110111 111101 01010101 011101 1000100111 110011111 11011111 110111 110110101 1011101 110100101 111101 010110111 0101101 110011101 0100101 10011001 1101100 11100111 111001 11010101 110101 11111101 0111001 11110111 111101 10100100101 10100101 01110111 0011101 11100111 111001
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 198
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; that, 's, be, much, so, my, must, dear are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words that, must, so, to, all, whose, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines dear is repeated).
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