This is an analysis of the poem The Two Debtors that begins with:
Once a woman silent stood
While Jesus sat at meat;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcaca deXebabX adadcbcb fafafafa bgbghghg ijijkdkd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101 110111 0011101 010101 1110111 1110101 11101111 110101 1101101 010101 1010100 110101 1010101 1011101 1010101 1101100 0110101 110101 1011101 110101 1010101 1110101 1001101 010111 1011101 01001 1111101 111001 1001011 1110101 1101101 110101 1010101 110101 1010101 110111 1110111 1010110 1110101 110101 1110101 011101 1010101 110101 1101001 1011101 1010110 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 230
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, her are repeated.
The author used the same word when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The Two Debtors;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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