This is an analysis of the poem Two Infants Ii that begins with:

A prince stood on the balcony of his palace addressing a great multitude summoned for the occasion and said, "Let me offer you and this whole...

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  • Rhyme scheme: X X X X X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,1,1,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: cinquain
  • Metre: 0111010000100100110110100101110110110110010101010010100111010010110100101100101100110001101001001011010101000111010001000110111001001001010110001101110010010011110010100100111011011011111000100101100100001000101 0101101111010111010101001101000111010001010110100100101001010110101101101101101010110001101010110101010110011101100110001101010100010110000101110100101001010100111111010010001001010101 1010111010100010001010101010111000111101000110110010101110011010111010001110101010001011110100101010100110010001010101000101100111001101101010110101111110111011010011110101001001010110011101110111100010101110101110101101100 111010001011101011101001011001101110010110011011101101101001000 1110011000100111101001001111101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 561
  • Average number of words per stanza: 99
  • Amount of lines: 5
  • Average number of symbols per line: 561 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 99
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to, of, you, her, with, she, have, on, my, new, their, as, by, in, infant, be, tears, him, woman, this, oppression, that, life are repeated.

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  • summary of Two Infants Ii;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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