This is an analysis of the poem The Two-Sided Man that begins with:
Much I owe to the Lands that grew--
More to the Lives that fed--... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abAB acAc XXXX abaBXabab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11100111 100111 110101111 1011011 1101100101 0010101 110101111 101111 10100101 111011 10111100 1001001 100111001 1101111 110101111 1011011 11101111 101111 1011100101 1011011
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 126
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, or are repeated.
The author used the same word much at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word head at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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