This is an analysis of the poem The Two Hermits that begins with:
Upon a lonely mountain, there lived two hermits who worshipped God
and loved one another....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aX Xb cXaX ddXX XX acX bXX XXX XX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,4,4,2,3,3,3,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101010111101101 111010 1111011101101110 010 1111010100001001010 111001011101111 1010011111011101 1100 10101011011111 1101111110111 1101111010111001 101100101010010 10101011001010110 110111010100 1010111010100111 000110100011011101 01 10101010110111011 111011101110110 110100 1010101101101111 00011010101111011 1101 10100101010100111 1111101111
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 144
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, and, be are repeated.
The author used the same word then at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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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- summary of The Two Hermits;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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