This is an analysis of the poem The Two Desires that begins with:
What is the spirit's desire,
Sprung, springing, singing,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbccaXbddaeeeddaabXXbbbdXd Aadddaddfaaggfchfchh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 26,20,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10010010 11010 10110010011010 01010001010010 010110010 10010100 100110 0110110111 1001010111 01011101110 010111 01010001 1101001 1001001 011101 11010 1001110 111101001110 011001 00100110 1101110 1010110101 1001101 1110001 10100 010101 10010010 1010010 010010100101 100100101001 11011111 100110010010 11001001110 1101111011010 110000011001 0100101001010 11110101010 11011100111 001010110111 010100111101 0110011001 01011101111 11001010101 0100101 0101 11
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 829
- Average number of words per stanza: 137
- Amount of lines: 46
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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, than are repeated.
The author used the same word what at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines lose is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase lose connects the lines.
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- summary of The Two Desires;
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