This is an analysis of the poem On Circuit that begins with:
Two neighbours, fighting for a yard of land;
Two witnesses, who _lie_ on either hand;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbbccdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101010101 1100111101 11010010111 1100110101 1101010101 1111011101 1111110101 11010101001 11000101110 110101010010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 437
- Average number of words per stanza: 77
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; two is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word two is repeated.
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