This is an analysis of the poem The Two Spirits: An Allegory that begins with:
FIRST SPIRIT
O thou, who plum'd with strong desire ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbDcecAfafgafaa hhhDhhhA ijigjijg khkededeXckbgkckg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110 1111001010 11010101 011111010 1010 11010001 1010111 00010101 10100010 01011101 01110101 011100101 1101 101010101 1110110011 0100010111 1111010 1001001010 11101101 101001110 1010 011100101 1010111010 0100111001 10100010 110111101 1110100101 0010110101 1111 111010111 10111101 11111111 11101 11100100 1111010010 101011101 11110 110101010 1111101 111101010 01010 11111111 101111010 1101110100 1111 101011010111 1010111001 11110010101 1111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 393
- Average number of words per stanza: 63
- Amount of lines: 49
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word some at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word spirit at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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