This is an analysis of the poem What Of It Then that begins with:
Well, what of it then, if your heart be weighed with the yoke
Of the world's neglect? and the smoke... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcddcdddecCdedC X ccCffgghgeXhXicdciddjcjcC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,1,25,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100101101001 00101101 011001111011 101001 0100101 10111 001001001 11101 01001110 11101 11001 01001011111 110101 1001 100100 011011 11001101111001 10011111001 1 11001001001101 1101101 1001 0100011 1100111 0101111111 10101001 001101101 11011011 1111101 11001001 11001 111010001 111011111 101011101 01001011 01101101 10110111 1100111 11011 0111001001 01101 01001001 10101 10011111001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 478
- Average number of words per stanza: 96
- Amount of lines: 44
- 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; of, your, and, it, then, what, not, all are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, and, not, though are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases fate, arise connect the lines.
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