This is an analysis of the poem Two Portraits that begins with:
You say, as one who shapes a life,
That you will never be a wife,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bb cc bb dd bb ee ff ee gg hh Xi bb jj kk hh bb ff ll cc mm nn bb oo kk ff ff ee gg ff hh dd ff ll kk oo gg bb ee dd bX kk ll hh kk gg ff hh ee bb dd Xf aa oo Xh pp ee nn ff gg qq X hh kk hh hh oo hh mm ii gg ee bb kk kk ee nn hh dd ee X aa ff kk dd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,1,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,1,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111101 11010001 11010111 01110101 00010111 01010111 01101101 11001111 01110111 11010101 11110111 11011101 10111101 01010011 11010101 11111101 010011101 11010111 11110101 11010101 11011111 1001101001 111111100 10010101 01010101 110101001 11110111 01001101 00110101 010101001 11110101 110001001 11110111 010100101 01111111 11010101 11110011 11010101 10111111 11010101 11110111 00110101 01110001 01010101 11111101 01010111 11111101 01010011 11011101 01010101 10011110 01000111 10110111 01101111 11111111 11011101 11010001 01110101 11110101 110101001 11010101 11110101 01010101 11111111 11110111 01000101 11010111 010011101 11011101 11111111 11011001 01010001 11101101 11110101 11111111 11011101 11110101 01001101 011110011 11011111 10111100 11001100 110101010 111101010 11110111 001010101 11011001 11010101 11010101 110100101 01011101 11001101 00111111 110010011 10111001 11110111 11011110 10110001 01011011 11111111 11111101 11010001 11011111 01010101 11010101 10110001 11111111 01010001 11001110 110111001 01010010 01010101 11110111 011001001 11111111 11011111 10010111 11010001 110100101 11111101 101101010 110101010 1 11110101 11010011 11011111 11110101 01111101 01010101 11111101 00111101 11111101 00110101 110111011 01011101 110011111 01110101 11010111 10010101 1101011001 11110101 01010101 110001001 11111101 11110101 11110001 11010101 100101001 01000111 10110101 011101111 01011101 11010101 10011001 01010101 11110101 10010101 11010111 00110101 1 11111111 11111101 11110011 10110101 10110101 01010100 11111101 11010101 10111111 010011111 11010101 101100101 11011101 11010101 110100111 01111101 10110111 01110100 11110111 01110100 10010101 11110101 01100101 11110111 11110011 11010101 11110001 10110111 11011101 11000101 11110101 11011111 11110001 010011111 11010101 11011101 11110101 11010111 11111101 11010101 11000111 011111001 11011101 01000101 01110100 11010101 110110111 01001101 10010101 010101001 11010111 01011111 11111101 10110101 11010101 11111111 11110011 11010111 01110101 01000110
- Amount of stanzas: 111
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 68
- Average number of words per stanza: 13
- Amount of lines: 222
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; your, and, you, of, love, it, as, or are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, as, of are repeated.
The author used the same words the, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Two Portraits;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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