This is an analysis of the poem The Two Elizabeths that begins with:
Read at the unveiling of the bust of Elizabeth Fry at the Friends'
School, Providence, R. I.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab X cdcd aeae fefe fgfg hhhh ciXi dede hbhb agag Xhah jkjk X jkjk dldl chch mgmg egeg nhnh gcgc cece eoeo aaaaXgkgk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 110010001001001101 110011 011 0110010111 0111010001 10001010111 01011101001 0101010101 1011011111 1011000101 1101010100 1101010101 0111010101 0100010101 1101010111 1111011101 0011000100 1101100101 1101010101 0111010101 1001110111 11010010111 1101010101 1101011001 1101111101 1101011000 0111010111 1111111101 1111010101 1111000111 11110110001 1101010111 0111011101 100110101111 0111010101 11100010101 1110010111 1101010101 1011010101 11000010110 1101010101 01010010111 11011101001 1101010101 0101000111 01010101001 1111110100 011 1101110101 1101001101 1101110011 01100000100 1101110101 1101111101 1011011101 1111010111 1101011101 1110000101 0101110101 10010100111 1111110101 1101010101 1001010101 1101011011 010100101001 0011010111 0111000101 1101000101 1011010011 0101010111 0101010101 01010100101 0101110101 0101000101 1111011111 10010100101 11000010101 11010100101 0101010101 11100011101 1111010101 11110100111 1101110001 1101010101 11011101001 0101101101 1111010110 01010001001 0101010101 1001110101 1101011101 1001110100
- Amount of stanzas: 25
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 158
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 92
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; her, she, and, nor, in, as, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, and are repeated.
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- summary of The Two Elizabeths;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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