This is an analysis of the poem One Of Us Two that begins with:
The day will dawn when one of us shall hearken
In vain to hear a voice that has grown dumb.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabacbcbbdbdebeb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011101110 0101011111 11011111110 1111111101 10111111010 010010011101 11111110010 1101010101 10110101110 1111010111 11010111010 1101110100 10111111110 1111011101 11111111010 1111110111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 782
- Average number of words per stanza: 142
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, all are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word shall is repeated.
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