This is an analysis of the poem Two Hazel Eyes that begins with:
WAS ever a bard in such pitiful plight?
Was ever such seen by yon stars in the skies?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cbcb dbdb ebebXabab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11001011001 11011111001 0110111111 01101001101 01001101011 11101011011 11101111001 001101001101 01011101011 101001101001 11001011111 11101001101 11101011011 11001011011 11101011111 01101001101 11011111111 11011111001 1100111111 101011011101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 184
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; by, and, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word was is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word eyes at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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