This is an analysis of the poem Two Neighbors that begins with:

Faces of two eternities keep looking at me.
One is Omar Khayam and the red stuff...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AXXbacbbXXXAc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1001100011011 1010101011 011011011010 10101001011 01011011001 10101001011 011101110 10110011001110 1101011110 11010111100 1110 1001100011011 101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 598
  • Average number of words per stanza: 93
  • Amount of lines: 13
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, slow, short are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.

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