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

When he gets off work at Packard, they meet
outside a diner on Grand Boulevard. He's tired,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdeafXcbbgXhXgbfciffiXjekkchacffdklbcjmabckbbcmfimfialXkbf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 60,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111111011 1101011101110 01011100010 10111100100 101110101010 11010000011011 0111010111 10010111111 1101010001110 0101111010010 10010101111 1010110111 1111111101 11010011110 110111001 1011101101 1111100010110 0110101111 001110110 10010010101 100101011010 1011101110 01101100111 00101100100 1101011101 1010010011110 0110101111 10011111010 010101101111 10001010100 0110010101 01101011010 001101110110 1010101101010 1111011100 101011011101 11111100111 111011110 10111011010 00101101001 1010101111 11111111010 1110010111 111111010101 100011101010 1010101011 001110101011 0010110011101 1010001001001 10101111100110 101111010101 010110111001 01010010010010 01110110011 111111110101 101111110111 111001010011 11011101111001 1100011111 010001111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2804
  • Average number of words per stanza: 525
  • Amount of lines: 60
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; who, and, to, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words on, to, of, why are repeated.

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  • summary of The Two;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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