This is an analysis of the poem The Two Sayings that begins with:
Two savings of the Holy Scriptures beat
Like pulses in the Church's brow and breast;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaXaaaabcbcbc
- 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: 1100010101 1100010111 1101110101 1110111110 11011011001 0101011001 11001011101 1101010011 1101010111 1011010101 11010101011 1101011101 1111111101 1111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 604
- Average number of words per stanza: 114
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; and, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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