This is an analysis of the poem The Two Rabbins that begins with:

THE Rabbi Nathan two-score years and ten
Walked blameless through the evil world, and then,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccccdddeeddffffffgX gffddbbhhiiddcc ggcciiaaaaeebbiiaaX dbbddjjggdX daaeeiiee eXddccaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 23,15,19,11,9,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 0111011011 1101010111 1101010001 1001011101 1100011101 1101110111 1101010111 0011010101 0101010101 1001110111 1001110111 1001110111 1001110001 0101010111 1011111001 1101011101 10011100111 1001110001 1111011101 0100110101 0100011101 1011100111 11011 11101 10001010101 11011110101 1000010101 1001011011 11010011101 01110110111 1101110101 0101010001 0111010101 1110010101 010101100101 01110100001 0101110101 1001010101 1100110011 01001000101 1101011101 1101011111 010011011 1111000111 1101010101 1011110101 0111001111 1011010111 1101110100 1111110101 0001011101 01011101011 1011011111 1011011111 1011111001 1111110111 10111101110 1111010101 1011010101 0101000101 1111010111 11110011111 10011111010 11010001010 1111111101 1101111101 1111111101 1111110 111 0011110101 1111010101 0100010011 01001010100 1101100101 0101000101 1111111001 1111000101 1101011101 1101010100 0111011101 1101011101 0100110101 1111010101 10101011101 1101101111
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 599
  • Average number of words per stanza: 112
  • Amount of lines: 85
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; his, and, my, for, me are repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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