This is an analysis of the poem The Two Thieves that begins with:
O now that the genius of Bewick were mine,
And the skill which he learned on the banks of the Tyne. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccbb ddbb ccee ddcc ffaa bbdd aabb aagg ccbb hhaaXccff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11101001001 101111101001 101011011111 111111101101 11111011001 11011101001 111011111001 1001111101101 010011011101 101101101111 101001101101 11110011011 011100011111 01011111011 1110010011110 0101110100010 01001001001 001101111101 11001001001 101111011101 11001111101 101101001011 101110101001 11011001111 111011111010 010110110010 11011001111 11001111001 101111011001 11101011011 11011011101 11011111011 01101101101 111001011010 11001101111 01111011111 11101001001 11001011011 101011011111 1001001001001 101101101011 1011010101011 101001101011 11001101011 11111101011 11111011111 11111101011 11101011001
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 202
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, would, his 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 the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Two Thieves;
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- history of its creation;
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