This is an analysis of the poem Twice Times that begins with:

There were Two Little Bears who lived in a Wood,
And one of them was Bad and the other was Good....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd aaee cXff ggee ddbb ccggbb X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,6,1,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 10110111001 110011101010 0110111 1111101001 11001101011 110010101011 0110111 1111000111 11001101011 110111011101 0110111 1111010111 1100100111 1111101011 0110111 11110001001 111100111 1110101011 01100111 111100111 01100111 111100111 01100111 11110101001 1100101111 11101011111 101110101011 111011111 110001010111 11101011111 11110101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 172
  • Average number of words per stanza: 34
  • Amount of lines: 31
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; they, his, bear are repeated.

    The author used the same word they at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase good connects the lines.

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  • summary of Twice Times;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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