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

I know two women, and one is chaste
And cold as the snows on a winters waste, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaabbbbaa ccddbbeeaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 111101101 1110110101 10101111 101110111 111100101 010110101 10101101 1100110101 01001001001 1110101001 010100101 111011101 1100100101 1110111111 0111001011 01001101001 01001001001 11001101011 0100100111 110100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 405
  • Average number of words per stanza: 80
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • 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, of, her are repeated.

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