This is an analysis of the poem Divorced that begins with:
TWO COUPLES are drifting the self-same way
(Men of the world know well)... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd ebXBfdXd XbbBXfXfXdcfcefdf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1101100111 100111 0011110111 100111 101101111 1100111 110011101 00101101 010110101 10101111 11111001001 1100111 0111100111 1111111 1100100101 11100101 110110110 10101101 0101101001 1100111 0101100100 111011001 1100100101 111001001 10101101001 1100111 11111011001 11101101 1010101001 00110111 01101011011 101111011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 298
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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 is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word behind at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Divorced;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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