This is an analysis of the poem All The World's A Stage that begins with:

All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaabcaXdefeXdgbfcabgffbbdXgX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101 11011101010 1111011100 1110011101 0110101011010 1011000101 1010110010 1101011011 01000111010 10110001010 10010111010 1011110101 100101011010 100101010 100010111010 0111000111 0101110101 1011110100 1111010111 00011100101 0100111111 0101110111 1011101101 10010110101 1100011101 1101010100 010100110100 1111111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1214
  • Average number of words per stanza: 211
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, in, his, sans are repeated.

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  • summary of All The World's A Stage;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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