This is an analysis of the poem The Two Laws that begins with:
He was the son of a hunting squire
And heir to a fair estate,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdeXeXfdfbeae caXaegcggcXcceae
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,16,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110100101 1100101 111110101 1100101 110110101 1100111 1110101010 1111101 110110111 0100101 110100101 0111101 1101000101 10111001 110011111 1100111 111110101 0101101 111100111 1100101 110100101 1101101 011100101 00100101 111010111 1100111 111110101 1110111 110100101 0010101 111011111 1110111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 554
- Average number of words per stanza: 117
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- 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; he, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, he are repeated.
The author used the same word he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word me at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Two Laws;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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