This is an analysis of the poem The Two Terrors that begins with:
Two terrors fright my soul by night and day:
The first is Life, and with her come the years;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abababab cdcdee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101111111 0101100100 0101010101 0101011111 0111010111 0110010101 1001010111 1101010101 1111111101 1101110100 1000110101 1101010101 1111011111 0111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 311
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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.
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- summary of The Two Terrors;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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