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

COUNTRY
'SWEET are the lanes and the hedges, the fields made red with the clover, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bcbcdccd efefcbbX babadddd bdbXdddd aggXecXX a hbhbdcXd cicijXbj ccccdbbd ccccdkkX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,8,8,8,8,1,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10 1101101001110010 0111011011010110 1001101111110110 101111111010010 101110110110110010 110111101001010 1101101110111110 110100101100010 10010011101010110 1001101001111011 1001001111111110 100110111001111 101111101111110 1100111101101110 101100101110110 10010101011100 100101101011010 1000111010010010 01011010001101010 1011001011010110 1001111010010010 1001110010010010 11111111111110 1111010001111110 110111010110010 1111011110011010 10110111011110110 01001101110111010 10010101101001 10110110111010010 11110011110110010 1001010101011011 1011110110111110 1010111010100110 01010010011010010 1011101101101110 11011101111010 111111111111110 0110111011011010 101100111111011 10 110111101011011 10010111001010 111111001101111 1011111101111110 1111111101111110 100110111110100110 1011101010011100 11011101011110110 10010110111101100 10010110101110 1001111101101100 1001111010010010 111100111001101 101110101011110 010101101111110 100110101111111 101101110110110 1101111101011001 11111011010011110 01101101011011111 0101101001011110 0101101111111010 0100111011010110 10110010010110010 10010111111111010 0100111101110010 111101011111010 011101101011110 11111101101010 101101101100101 1111111101111111 1010101101110010
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 455
  • Average number of words per stanza: 84
  • Amount of lines: 82
  • Average number of symbols per line: 60 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 11
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, fair, when, in, of, her, old, work, with, our, we, men, fight are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words fair, the are repeated.

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

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  • summary of Two Voices;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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