This is an analysis of To Be, Or Not To Be (Hamlet, Act Iii, Scene I) by William Shakespeare.
To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXabcXdacXefgheXibdXXhXafjjfaggiXXX
- Stanza lengths: 35,
- 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
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 35
Repeated words/phrases
to, and, sleep, s, of
Anaphora
the
