This is an analysis of the poem To Be, Or Not To Be (Hamlet, Act Iii, Scene I) that begins with:
To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXabcXdacXefgheXibdXXhXafjjfaggiXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 35,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 00110010010 10110001010 01110001010 10110101010 11010100101 1111010111 01110101001 11010101010 0100010101 01010111001 1011011111 1111010101 111110001 1101000111 1111011101 001010111000 0100110101 0100010101 11010000101 110110101 0011011101 0111100101 1101010101 0100010011 1100011000 1111011111 1101011110 1101110011 11010101010 0101001101 11010011110 0001110101 1101010111 01010101100 0111100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1495
- Average number of words per stanza: 286
- Amount of lines: 35
- 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; to, and, sleep, s, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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