This is an analysis of the poem On Two Sisters Whose Deaths Were Together that begins with:
IN woods remote, hid in the mountain hollows,
Doves there are that have a gentler beauty,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXb XaXb XXab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011001010 1111101010 11111101010 1111100101 11101111010 1111101111 111011010001 111100101 11011111011 111100101 11111011010 1101100101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 185
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 12
- 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:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; doves, and, our, ye, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words doves, and are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word heart at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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