This is an analysis of the poem Two Men And A Maid that begins with:

Two little dudes from the George-street block,
Up for a brief vacation!... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcccb dXdXeeeb afafeXef
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110100111 1101010 110100111 1001010 11010101 110110101 11011111 11011010 110100101 10101000 110100111 1101000 110100111 10100111 100101001 11011010 1110101 1001010 1111101 0101010 11101101 10111100111 11110100111 10111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 278
  • Average number of words per stanza: 52
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; two, little are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word two is repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word station at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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