This is an analysis of the poem Two Lives that begins with:
TWO youths from a village set out together
To seek their fortune the wide world through; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXabab cdcdceceeeeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11001011010 011100111 1110101010 0101100111 11111110110 0100101111 010010111110 1101110101 101011001010 01101010101 101101011010 01011111001 11001101010 0101110101 101011001010 0100100101 1101011010 011101101 0100111110 0100011101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 458
- Average number of words per stanza: 83
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; and, his, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
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- summary of Two Lives;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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