This is an analysis of the poem One Person Can Live Alone that begins with:
Two people can live under one roof,
Sleep in the same bed....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcddXee ceaeXdbe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111011 10011 101011010 01110100 101101011 11101010 10101 111101011 1101101 101110 011001101 1 1110101 101011001001 1 11101110010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 238
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of One Person Can Live Alone;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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