This is an analysis of the poem Two Voyages that begins with:
Two ships which meet upon the ocean waste,
And stay a little while, and interchange... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXc bdab cdXd cced ccXc fdcg XeXX XgXh accg XXc Xdh XdaXfef
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,3,3,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111010101 1101011101 1001111101 10110111001 11110100101 1101100101 0101110101 1111110101 1001011101 101010011101 1001010100 11001011101 1011111101 1101010101 1111110111 11001100101 10010101101 11110111001 100110011000 1101110111 1011010101 1101010101 1011111101 1101010111 1011111111 11010111111 1111010101 1101111101 1001010111 11001110001 1011010101 1011110101 1111011101 1111010101 11010111001 01110101001 1111111110 11000011110 11010011101 11010111110 1111011101 0101111101 11110101111 1101111010 1101111101 1011001000 0111100101 1011010101
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 167
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, one, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word one at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word man at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Two Voyages;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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