This is an analysis of the poem On The Deaths Of Thomas Carlyle And George Eliot: Sonnets that begins with:

TWO SOULS diverse out of our human sight
Pass, followed one with love and each with wonder:... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabXabbcaac
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1101101101 11010111010 01010001010 1011110001 0101100001 11111101010 10011110100 1101010101 10011101010 110010001010 1111010101 1111011111 110010011101 0101010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 643
  • Average number of words per stanza: 114
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; with, of, and, light are repeated.

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